Yep, this was the issue: my ignorance of the basic syntax involved. For the want of a period (full stop) a day was lost. But not really : I have learned quite a bit, since this was my first time trying anything at all involving the command line (hence I spent the whole of yesterday researching, testing, and practicing these newfound knowledge)---and so I thank you very much for taking the time to help an interested beginner get started: your advice has made me confident that I'll be able to do even more with these tools, and perhaps offer the same kind of help to someone else some day. Till later, keep well.
I'm pleased you have it working. BTW, in the interests of security, *never* put '.' in a root user's PATH.
Peter -- Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/>
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