On 2021-02-25 at 07:41, Richard Owlett wrote: > Darac's answer to answer to a previous question led me to try > >> https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2Bintitle%3Afaq%20site%3Adebian.org > which gave me the content I needed, but not in a convenient format. > > I would like to pipe search results to a text processor. > Synaptic led me to "surfraw" and "w3m". > Documentation for "w3m" was more use user friendly, so I installed it. > > Following a man page example I got: > >> richard@defaultinstall:~$ $ w3m -M http://w3m.sourceforge.net >> bash: $: command not found
You don't need to include the '$ ' at the start of the command. When someone presents a command in the form $ command --options arguments /path/to/filename or # command --options arguments /path/to/filename the $ or # represents the shell prompt; a shell prompt ending in '$' typically represents a command being run as an ordinary user, and a shell prompt ending in '#' typically represents one being run as the root user. The reason for including these is so that when one is presenting both commands and command output, it's clear at a glance which lines are commands and which are not. Strip those parts out of your command, and see what you get. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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