Hi Erin,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Erin Brinkley erinbrink...@ymail.com wrote:
I use the 'iceweasel' package for my main browser. But I was thinking about
how Firefox itself (at mozilla.com) is much newer. I read a blog comment that
someone started running the newest binary directly
Hi,
Don't know why, but for some reason I had the feeling that this might happen
some day sooner or later. Unfortunately it's pretty much sooner than I expected.
So prior to this disaster, a few weeks ago I downloaded all files from the Lenny
repository accompanied by the according html pages.
I
Hi,
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Russell L. Harris
rlhar...@broadcaster.org wrote:
I need a recommendation for a Linux-compatible USB-interface flash
card reader to handle SD, SDHC, and CompactFlash.
My Verbatim Universal works flawlessly with my 16 GB Sandisk Ultra II SDHC card.
Manon.
I want to execute some script file in usb storage media with fat32 format,
but I can not set execute permission to them with chown +x. What shall I
do?
I don't think chown +x is possible on an alien FS.
On my usb stick with FAT32, all files look like they're executables.
You might simply use:
Hi Pol,
Using cups on debian testing, the page printed seems in draft mode (the
resolution is 1200x1200).
How check (and disable) draft mode in cups?
Use your webbrowser to access the cups interface:
0: http://localhost:631/
1. Manage Printers
2. Set Printer Options
3. Printout Mode
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Merciadri Luca
luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote:
I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as
you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite
fast HDDs, etc. They're all on the same partition. I have
Hi Paul,
I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd
You should add the next line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (ie: if
you're too using Lenny)
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
run 'aptitude
Hi Paul,
Sorry, made an error. You should use or course:
# aptitude install -t lenny-backports wicd
Greetings, Manon.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Manon Mettenmanon.met...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Paul,
I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at:
Hi All,
Since I installed Lenny from scratch a while ago, I have problems accessing
my external usb hd. It is plugged in to a usb port permanently, but I only turn
on the power if I need to access it (I use it for backup).
As I turn on the power, it reports as owned by root, but when still on
Hi All,
Since I installed Lenny from scratch a while ago, I have problems accessing my
external usb hd. It is plugged in to a usb port permanently, but I
only turn on the
power if I need to access it (I use it for backup).
As I turn on the power, it reports as owned by root, but when still on
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a cell phone
it can't play some mp3
maybe it supports only 128K
So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K
Which package in etch?
I would recommend lame; it's in the multimedia repository
Hi Rodolfo
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina
rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote:
I need the right syntax to copy file.jpg 100 times with one command so to get
100 files named file1.jpg, file2.jpg, ..., file100.jpg.
#!/bin/bash
for x in `seq 1 100`; do
if [[ x -lt 10 ]]; then
Hi Rick,
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote:
I forgot about seq. This is even better (the -w left pads with zero for
equal width):
for x in $(seq -w 1 100); do cp file.jpg file${c}.jpg; done
Waw! Great one-liner.
BTW: Guess you meant file${x}.jpg;
Hi Kelly, Lee,
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome
screensavers.
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
Hmm. Interesting stuff to read. Never
Hi Rob,
Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking
or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up
only when I hit the keyboard.
searching a bit, it seems like if you're using xscreensaver,
increasing 'pointerHysteresis' a whole bunch might do
Hi,
Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking
or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up
only when I hit the keyboard.
Can anyone please tell me if this is possible at all, and how to achive it.
Thanks in advance, Manon.
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Hi David,
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Got my new WDC800 disk up and running, LVM (fantastic tool!). 2.6.26-rt now
boots without problems.
I have noted that during high disk access rates, the temperature of the WDC
soars (from a 33c idle to up to
Hi Serena,
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides, mencoder can encode .flv. See its usage page:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-selecting-codec.html
At the end of the web page above, it has an example how to convert a avi file
to a
Hi Serena,
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can
play .flv file and real media file.
I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has
several .flv files.
Hi Raju,
On 6/7/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manon Metten wrote:
The only problem I have lately is Firefox 2.0.0.14 crashing regularly.
Everything else is running fine.
No. The opcode errors do not correspond to the firefox crashes. The best way
to track down
Hi Bela,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:01 AM, abdelkader belahcene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a program written for XP, I want to run it on my linux debian,
I tried wine, I didn't do want, is ther another emulator or another
procedure;
Check out this link: http://win4lin.net/content/
The
Hi Raju,
On 6/13/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I removed '/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1' and the errors where gone.
Which errors? Did it get rid of the opcode errors or did it get rid of bad
font path element errors?
To my surprise I'm back to where I've started
Hi Michelle,
On 6/8/08, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Manon,
Am 2008-06-07 02:16:31, schrieb Manon Metten:
On 6/6/08, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xset: bad font path element (#71), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong
Hi Aaron,
What's this for kind of 'aptitude why' command you used?
frenesi: ~ % aptitude why poppler-utils
i cupsys Depends poppler-utils | xpdf-utils
When I tried 'aptitude why poppler-utils', aptitude complained
'Unknown command why'.
I' running Etch (aptitude 0.4.4-4). Could this
Hi Ron,
On 6/12/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mine is an ASUS DRW-1814BLT, and the disks (both DVD-R SL and DVD+R
DL) are Memorex.
I'm on Debian Etch; dvd burner is Sony optiarc.
I'm using Maxell SL DVD+R for backup purposes only without any problems.
I remember though I had some
Hi Raju
On 6/7/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manon Metten wrote:
The only problem I have lately is Firefox 2.0.0.14 crashing regularly.
Everything else is running fine.
No. The opcode errors do not correspond to the firefox crashes. The best way
to track down
Hi Michelle,
On 6/6/08, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xset: bad font path element (#71), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
Can you show us the output of
and thanks in advance,
Manon Metten
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Hi Raju,
snip
Are you running KDE by any chance? I have the same errors in
my .xsesssion-errors as well. I have a feeling that it is due to some badly
written KDE app.
Yes, I'm running KDE (using etch: Linux debian 2.6.18-6-686 #1).
I forgot to mention.
The only problem I have lately is
Hi Nigel
I suggest unchecking all boxes on the Enable xkb options page, click on
apply, then on default, then logout, and login to KDE.
Having logged back in, check Enable xkb options box, and scroll down to the
Third level choosers section, then check the Press Right Alt key to choose
/Press Right Alt key to choose third level, Shift+ Right Alt
key is Multi_Key.
What is this Multi_Key? What's it used for?
Thank you very much for your in-depth explanation.
Greetings, Manon Metten.
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Hi Florian,
Thanks for explaining.
What is this Multi_Key? What's it used for?
It is used to compose special characters by pressing two or more keys
in succession.
OK. Then I prefer to use the Menu-key, coz that's the way I set up Xkb
options. To me it's much easier than pressing
Hi Florian,
On 4/13/08, Florian Kulzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:43:55 +0200, Manon Metten wrote:
On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote:
Hi All,
In KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb
Hi Nigel,
Well I tried adding the € to the 5 key on my Etch install, which only has
the
original US keyboard layout. The only box I checked in xkb options was the
Add the EuroSign to the 5 key one, and ALT-GR plus 5 now gives me the €
char. The command shows: setxkbmap -option eurosign:5
Hi Nigel
On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote:
Hi All,
In KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb options, I set
Adding the EuroSign to certain keys to Add the EuroSign to the 5
key,
coz that's where it is located on my
Hi All,
In KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb options, I set
Adding the EuroSign to certain keys to Add the EuroSign to the 5 key,
coz that's where
it is located on my keyboard.
At the bottom of the Control Center I read: setxkbmap -option
eurosign:5,compose:menu.
(I have set Compose Key
On 4/1/08, Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
another problems for OO. The UI Font is so ugly that I want to change it.
I've tried every solutions I can find in google, but nothing works!
- Check/Uncheck using system font
- Apply replacement table for the font Andale Sans UI, or
Hi Andrius,
On 3/6/08, Andrius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi lads,
technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to
txt.
Using Adobe Reader 8.1.2 I could simply select text with my lmb,
and than paste the text to wherever I want.
Or I could do a ctrl-a and select
Hi,
On 2/2/08, Sam Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I set mine for 60 days or 100 mounts.
Before I change something, I would like to know the current
setings. How do I find those?
Greetings, Manon.
Hi Jim,
On 1/29/08, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the opera browser has caches when I view the web pages?
Yes, Opera caches web pages. You'll find them here:
Tools/Preferences/Advanced/History. You can also empty the
cache there.
Have you tried to reload a page/frame.
... sometime I
On 1/12/08, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:53:28PM +0100, Manon Metten wrote:
On 1/11/08, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash
card, all the bits slide to the outside edge
On 1/11/08, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash
card, all the bits slide to the outside edge where they're harder to
reach. ;)
Yeah, I had the same problem with my harddisk. It spins by nature.
But to compensate I welded
Hi Ron,
On 11/28/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can guarantee you with metaphysically complete certitude that OP
is *not* using a machine with an 80386 chip in it.
Sure :-)
I Googled a bit and found that the 80386 was first released in 1986.
So that's pretty ancient. I had no
Hi Ann Kok,
On 11/27/07, ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes. I have 2G physical memory
but the kernel is showing 1G
the kernel verion is 2.4.27-2-386
Once I had the same problem with kernel: 2.6.18-4-486
After I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18-5-686 I could use 2Gb.
I was told that There
On 11/4/07, BartlebyScrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This means, Iceweasel *is* Firefox just with another name.
Yes, usually. But it also wreaks havoc with certain sites because the
user agent says ice weasel which most sites don't recognize. If you
stay with ice weasel, I recommend the
Hi Sean,
You might consider using Lha. It does the same as tar and bzip2 together
(although you can disable compression).
It has a simple syntax. You can also view the contents of the archive and
even extract one single file from it.
Example (suppose I have a 'work' dir with a.o. the file 'abc'
Hi,
I was wondering if powering on causes the most wear and tear to HD's,
than wouldn't it be wise to set timeout in /boot/grub/menu.lst to eg.
600 (10 min.) so that the HD's have some time for warming up before
they are accessed heavily on boot-up.
Manon.
Hi,
On 8/28/07, Loeghmon T. Nejad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you recommend as a good, practical WYSIWYG editor for creating
simple web pages, with mostly text, some graphics and pdf, for debian Lenny
please? Thanks.
You could use Quanta +. Pressing 2 will load the page you just edited
Hi Giorgos,
On 8/29/07, Giorgos Pallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which brings me to my last question: I don't have a ~/.icedove nor a
~/.thunderbird directory... Where does it store my profile?
~/.mozilla-thunderbird.
Manon.
Hi Ron,
On 8/20/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the links. You surely know how to find something.
I find this much more comfortable than eg. typing:
rx mp3conv.rexx 256kbps ~/mp3/work
Even better: I run this script from within my dir util (DirOpus ==
Konqueror), so
Hi Bob,
On 8/20/07, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks. I copied this to my 'Bash-howto'.
I would hate to see you record this in your howto with == without
knowing that == is a bash specific feature. :-)
Well, actually it ain't that hard. I know from C that = assigns a value to
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I don't understand the concept of compeletly controlling and
editor from a script.
Everything I can do by accessing a menu item or hitting some keys,
I can do from within a script, and even more.
I still haven't
Hi Anthony,
On 8/20/07, Anthony M Simonelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about Zenity? I've used it before to provide a GUI interface to
some of my simple bash scripts.
Thanks for the tip. Gonna check this out too.
Greetings, Manon.
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you mix with apt-get ...
... This leads to the cruft buildup that
aptitude is suposed to help you prevent.
I remember a thread some time ago that just pointed out not to mix apt-get
with aptitude.
The other problem is
Hi Mumia,
On 8/19/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* However, I never do anything at the command line that hasn't been
verified as safe. I always use the curses interface to find out what is
going to happen before I enter a command at the command line.
Well, that's a valuable advise
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] almost wrote:
Perhaps the OP can restate her needs and we can help her make a reasoned
choice without it becoming a religious issue.
OK. I have a hard time to remember all those command line options. So
whenever
I have to accomplish
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved
people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get instead of using its
curses interface.
Are you saying I should NOT use aptitude as a replacement for
apt-get, like
Hi Ron,
On 8/19/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Python + Tcl/Tk should be easier than Python + Gtk.
Thanks.
Even simpler would be bash + dialog or it's GUI companion gtkdialog.
Could you mail me some examples you wrote, please?
I find this much more comfortable than eg.
Hi David,
On 8/19/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It certainly has its warts. In particular, Bash's test (aka [)
operator has pitfalls. Testing for an empty variable, for example,
is awkward. If you do:
if [ $foo == ]
Bash will complain about missing arguments. Instead,
Hi Steve,
Thanks for sharing your valuable experience. I've decided to first become
more familiar with Bash and then I'll give Python a try. If it don't like
it, I
can always try something else. But ATM I think Python will be the best
option. I've seen some code on the net that looks pretty clean
Hi,
Because of the Debian Security Advisory DSA 1356-1 yesterday,
I did an aptitude update/upgrade. All went well except for the
following message:
The following packages have been kept back:
linux-image-2.6-486
This is my situation:
1. March this year I installed Etch with an 2.6.18-486
Hi Gilles,
On 8/17/07, Gilles Mocellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
= You just have to use the Etch 2.6.18-686 kernel to use more tha 1Gb !
[...]
No need of 2.6.21, Lenny
If your system works with 2.6.21-2-686, it will with 2.6.18-5-686.
Thanks, Manon.
Hi,
I just read in the papers that there's a severe vulnerability discovered in
Opera 9.22, although the article did not say what. It is fixed in 9.23.
Manon.
Hi Wayne,
I have never seen this way of defining a path [ PATH=~/XX:${PATH} ]
These lines come from .bash_profile:
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH=~/bin:${PATH}
fi
I learned PATH=a path:a new path everything inclosed in quotes. I
Hi Wolodja,
As a side note on documentation. You might find packages like dwww or
dhelp useful. They provide a single entry point to access all
installed documentation.
Thanks! It's a very useful tip.
Manon.
Hi Andrei,
On 8/10/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just look at your .bash_profile:
# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
And in .bashrc I find:
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
So this is my conclusion:
Whenever I open a new bash
Hi Mike,
On 8/10/07, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Errr... She :-)
Sorry 'bout that! Hard to see what you look like!
Never heard of a guy named Manon, only of 'A Boy Named Sue'.
But then again: What's in a name? :-)
Abject apologies and all that.
Also, that's a better quote
Hi Wayne,
On 8/9/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK I think I found the problem.
Your path statement is incorrect.
PATH=~/XX:${PATH}
Try this
SCRIPTS=/where/your/scripts/are
PATH=$PATH:$SCRIPTS
That ain't the solution either. I got exactly the same output.
So I entered the line
Hi Mumia,
On 8/10/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for
that?
M echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
Thanks, Manon.
I believe the correct way to do
Hi Orestes,
On 8/10/07, Orestes leal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe the correct way to do this is to set the path in ~/.bashrc.
Set it like so:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:$HOME/scripts
This works but, the ~/scripts dir appear for every user?
because if
Hi Andrei,
It works as it should on my system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep Hello .bash*
.bash_profile:echo Hello from bash_profile
.bashrc:echo Hello from bashrc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash
Hello from bashrc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit
exit
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash --login
Hello from bashrc
Hi Wayne,
On 8/10/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you doing all of this in KDE? If so I have no clue. I would
suggest you go to a console VT and enter the path statements I showed.
Then, if it doesn't work there, there is a real problem ...
Yes, I was doing this in KDE. I
Hi Wayne,
On 8/8/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you saying that you put the PATH in .bash_profile like
PATH=./scripts:$PATH
export PATH
And doing
. . .bash_profile
does not make it availible when it finishes? If that is so, please
post the contents of your .bash_profile.
Hi Florian,
On 8/8/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html
http://hetland.org/writing/instant-python.html
Thanks for the links. They are very useful. Although I did already
some
Hi Vincent,
On 8/9/07, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
zsh is more powerful, e.g. recursive globbing, MULTIOS, more powerful
parameter expansion, tied parameters...
In fact, zsh is better mainly for interactive use (better completion
mechanisms, multiline editor).
I'll take a
Hi Steve,
On 8/9/07, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or should I learn bash scripting anyway?
Learn enough to be able to parse it and convert it to your language of
choice.
That's a valuable advice. It'll save me a lot of time and yet I'll be able
to achieve what I want.
import os
Hi Steve,
On 8/9/07, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
python ... is sensitive to indentation;
Well, that's a major disadvantage to me too.
Actually, it isn't. At no time have I ever had any problems with
Python
code which would not also be an issue in other code as well. The
Hi Steve,
Thanks for explaining. I'll examine some scripts I'll find on the web,
to get an idea of how it looks.
Manon.
Hi Vincent,
On 8/7/07, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl?
Could you explain in short why you prefer zsh over bash?
Thanks, Manon.
Hi Nelson,
On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nowadays I replaced Perl with Python, but I still use Perl from time
to time (to write one-liners mostly).
Why did you switch from Perl to Python?
Learn how to use 'find'. It's very useful.
Also regular expressions.
I will.
Hi Andrew,
On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently I've begun picking up (mostly by osmosis and from reading
Florian's posts) a lot more awk, find, and regex. Those three combined
with xargs or find -exec can get a pile of work done really quickly.
Thanks for the
Hi Andrew,
On 8/8/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
I saw nobody in the thread suggested this:
Instead of a ~/script dir I use a ~/bin dir and didn't need to change
anything because ~/.bash_profile already contains:
Thanks for the tip.
Hi,
This thread ain't over yet. Apart from using ~/bin (as Andrei Popescu
suggested) I noticed that adding 'export PATH=$HOME/scripts:$PATH'
to the end of ~/.bash_profile, the newly added dir is not available in
any new session I open. However, when I open a new bash window,
the new dir is
Hi Nelson,
On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why did you switch from Perl to Python?
I found the code I wrote easier to understand. But as I said before,
I still use Perl for some tasks.
OK. I forgot to mention Perl in my initial question. But if the code is
easier to
Hi Nyizsnyik,
On 8/8/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adding $HOME to /etc/profile should not work the way you want it to.
These settings are global, consider them as executed by root, so in
this case $HOME will resolve as /root, not /home/manon as you may have
expected.
Hi Andy,
I remember om my old Amiga I had a similar problem.
It had something to do with the camera not complying to
usb standards. I first had to format the mem card on my
computer before I could access it. From then on I had
no more problems. Though this ain't exactly Linux
related, you might
Hi Wayne,
On 8/8/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any changes made to .bash_profile or .bashrc require a restart of that
file.
If you have at the end of the .bash_profile, the command
. .bashrc
Then after editing either one, you do
. .bash_profile ( which is the same as logging
Hi Andrew,
On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if you haven't yet, you would be well served to read man bash.
As I already said (Quote: I first have to work my way to 'man bash' ),
I surely will.
It is an excellent resource, and you'll learn bash scripting at the same
Hi Andrew,
On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you're missing the point. Write in whatever suits you and the
task at hand. If you're hacking on a project that has already started,
then learn the appropriate language. If you're starting from scratch,
then learn
Hi Wayne,
Pretty straightforward your PS1 example. That's one bridge too far
for me now, as I'm only for about one year on Debian.
I simply use PS1='M ' for user and PS1='R ' for root :-)
For me, the rest is redundant info, which only distracts me.
Isn't Debian (Linux) fun!
Yes, it is.
Hi,
I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that?
M echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
Thanks, Manon.
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do something like this
$ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
If you put it into the appropriate startup script it will get done
every time.
I was looking for some kind of 'path' command but could not find anything
alike. I didn't know of
Hi Nyizsnyik,
On 8/7/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would rather you checked your ~/.bash_profile file.
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
Manon.
Hi Andrew,
On 8/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$PATH is an environment variable like any other and gets assigned a
value in the same way as any other. export is used to make a variable
available to other processes that come after the one spawned by the
assignment
Hi,
I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
- Which one is easiest to learn?
- Which one is more powerful?
- Can I execute /bin commands from within a python script
(something like mkdir or ls)?
Or should I learn bash scripting anyway?
Please, let me know your experiences.
Thanks in
Hi PK,
On 8/7/07, P Kapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
For the simple reason that you wouldn't want (or prefer) to mess with
the system's defaults unless otherwise forced to. Moreover, think of a
machine where
Hi David,
On 8/7/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
They do the same thing, but for different scopes. /etc/profile affects
every account on the system. ~/.bash_profile only affects your own.
On a
Hi David,
On 8/7/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
- Which one is easiest to learn?
That's debatable, I think. Bash's syntax is more idiosyncratic, but
there's less of it.
- Which one is more powerful?
Python.
Or should I
Hi PK,
On 8/7/07, P Kapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ain't got no /usr/share/doc/bash/examples dir.
There's also no /usr/local/share/doc dir.
Where do I get these examples?
apt-get install bash-doc
In general, for any package, pkg, pkg-doc is a good source of help and
examples.
Waw,
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
SNIP
Well, I combined two commands into one.
$ x=y
sets an environment variable x to value y.
$ export x
makes x available to all subprocesses in the tree which get created
after the export.
$
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