bish wrote: > Then where is the problem ? Note, the error message you are > getting is not a bash message. It is probably be from the > settings of lesspipe in your distro ... Something is being > routed through an "unsafe" command, which is not on your > box. I am in no position to guess further ...
my distro being pcqlinux, can anyone guess what the possible `unsafe' command may be? and how can a command be deemed unsafe if it isn't on my box in the first place? this is a stand-alone desktop. and why does the same problem not occur if i give a single-word argument to `man -K' ? is the pipe to stdout any different when the argument is a multi-word string enclosed in double quotes? people using pcqlinux, please tell me whether the problem can be replicated on your machines. here is the original message: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:18:40AM -0800, Tathagata Banerjee wrote: >> i was trying to search for the string "save text image" in >> all man pages, so i did $man -K "save text image" and also >> $ man -K "save\ text\ image". in both cases, bash returned >> "sh: unsafe: command not found." which kept scrolling thr- >> ough the screen until i ended it with ctrl-c. >> >> however, "man -K" works nicely with single-word arguments. >> is this a bug or a feature? :-) how can i find the speci- >> fied string in all man pages? bish wrote: >> What your are looking at is 'man 2' of chmod and not man 1. >> Most folk don't need man 2 pages (System Calls), and just >> about need the man 1 pages (Commands). Do a 'man 7 man' for >> finer details. actually, i didn't look at "man 2 chmod" at all. it was the brief mention of "save text image" in "man 1 chmod" itself that intrigued me enough to try to find out about it :-) thanks - t. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
