On 03/10/2010 04:42 PM, stosss wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Mike Lynch<mjly...@mchsi.com> wrote: > > "a" and "an" are general. "an apple" means any apple. "the apple" > means one specific apple. Because there is only one su command the > "an" does not work because of the context.
Actually...yes, there is only one "su" program binary, but there is more than one way to write an su command. For example, to switch to root, you could do "su - root", "su root", "su -", or just "su" (yes, I know full well that adding "-" changes the behavior...I'm just giving a general example). Therefore, the "an" (or "a" depending on how you say "su") certainly fits, as (going back to the original context) the book does not give a specific su command, so "an su command" would fit. Using "the su" would apply only if the book was either referring to a specific su command that it mentions, or referring to the su program itself (in which case it would probably say something like "using the su program..."). -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
