Re: [expert] Perl question - include?

2003-08-23 Thread Ron Stodden
Thanks, Frankie, But I am only trying to maintain a perl program written by someone else, and as readers of this newsgroup will know I strongly deprecate such unplanned non-integrated jack-in-the-box, unsafe languages as perl in favout of such beuatiful creations as, say, gprolog for Linux or

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-23 Thread David Guntner
Udo Rader grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > If it were, some construct like the thing below could then list all files > in "/opt/too_many_files" except "no_not_this_one": > > % ls -l /opt/too_many_files/*{!no_not_this_one} > > Yes, I know this doesn't work, but is there any other efficient way to d

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-23 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Samstag, 23. August 2003 04:21 schrieb David Guntner: > Udo Rader grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > If it were, some construct like the thing below could then list all > > files in "/opt/too_many_files" except "no_not_this_one": > > > > % ls -l /opt/too_many_files/*{!no_not_this_one} > > > > Yes

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-23 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:32:35 +0200 Udo Rader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > I have a directory that contains several hundred files and I want to > copy them all except _one_ file. > > This sounds so easy yet still I am stuck or blind or stupid. Is there no > "not" operator in bash? > > If

Re: [expert] I don't know how to head this

2003-08-23 Thread Ron Stodden
Anne, If any message submitted to sympa contains any of the magic mailing list commands like "submit" "cancel", "remove", it will be dropped. Anne Wilson wrote: because sympa appears to bounce my efforts to raise the problem. I am posting messages to the lists that never get through. On the

Re: [expert] KMail and Pine

2003-08-23 Thread Fred Albrecht
Guilherme Cirne wrote: One solution is to delete all .index* files after using Pine and before opening KMail. Is this safe? What are these index* files used for? Is there a better solution? The simplest way is to setup an IMAP server to store your mail (which you can retrieve with fetchmail). T

Re: [expert] Cups is broken...

2003-08-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 10:44, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi All, > > Of late I've not been able to get Cups going. For the longest time I've > not had a lick of trouble with it. Recently though, its been miserable > and I haven't a clue as to why. > > I've got a lot of this going on in my /var/log/syslo

[expert] test -- please ignore

2003-08-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
This is a test. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkduron KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail

Re: [expert] Perl question - include?

2003-08-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 23 August 2003 12:56 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > > > > > > > > I am well aware.    The rule is that if the message I am > replying to is in HTML, then my response to it will be in HTML, so the > parent message integrity is preserved.  That > was my deliberate choice of actio

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-23 Thread yankl
May be for copy all but one: mv not_this_one ~/tmp && cp * /dist_folder && mv ~/tmp/not_this_one . [EMAIL PROTECTED] yankl]$ mkdir test [EMAIL PROTECTED] yankl]$ cd test [EMAIL PROTECTED] yankl]$ mkdir temp [EMAIL PROTECTED] yankl]$ cd test [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ vi 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ v

Re: [expert] I don't know how to head this

2003-08-23 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wanted us to know: >contain commands. In the bounce message there is an invitation to >reply to sympa-request if you are not satisfied. I did that, but I've >heard nothing and the message was not released to the list. I'm a list admin