On Jan 4, 2008 1:01 AM, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Karl Cunningham wrote:
> > On 1/1/2008 2:00 AM, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> >> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> >> Anybody know of a link where I can find all the obscure (and
> >> not-so-obscure) command names explained? A nice bonus would be if
> >> the explanations would be as helpful as Carl was here and tell me
> >> ~"you probably don't need this one anymore if you have thus-and-such
> >> which essentially replaces it"~.
> >
> > One not-very-elegant way is to hit the tab key twice at a command line
> > prompt. You'll see a list of commands within your PATH. Check out the
> > man page for any commands that strike your fancy.
> >
> > Karl
> >
>
> Well, that's not really something I can even check now, since I already
> deleted the item in question (which you trimmed out, necessitating that
> I search and find the email you responded to in order to find the name
> -- not complaining mind you, but irritated -- please don't over-trim).
> Do you happen to know if that command's man page says that it is no
> longer needed if you are using cups or even recommends that they not
> co-exist?
>
Going back in history, I find the following stuff, which I have
denoted with >>> because I can't figure out any other good way to set
it off.
I wrote:
>>> System-config-printer is the older RedHat GUI printer configurator.
>>> My experience has been that it does not coexist nicely with CUPS, and
>>> you shouldn't try to use both of them on the same system.
Ralph replied:
>>> Sounds authoritative enuf for me.
>>> # yum -y remove pirut
>>>
>>> Anybody know of a link where I can find all the obscure (and
>>> not-so-obscure) command names explained? A nice bonus would be if the
>>> explanations would be as helpful as Carl was here and tell me ~"you
>>> probably don't need this one anymore if you have thus-and-such which
>>> essentially replaces it"~.
This opened a can of worms, ending with a contest to see whose system
had the most commands available. The short answer is that there is no
easy reference to obscure commands. How do you want to define
"obscure"?
To get closer to the question about "system-config-printer", that
program has no man.page. Nor do many of the RedHat configuration GUI
adjuncts. A quick look around shows this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ locate bin/system-config | wc -l
35
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ locate system-config | grep man[1-9] | wc -l
6
You can do this yourself without the "wc -l" step and look at the results.
carl
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