Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
> >
> > But nowhere near as clear.
>
> And it's quicker to type "$(" - muscle mem
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:22:05 -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote:
> that's mainly because I switched my escape for GNU screen from ^A to `
That's a good idea, as I use ` a lot less than Ctrl-A I may do the same.
Then I'll have to override years opf muscle m
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:22:05 -0400, Jonathan Callen
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> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with
>> backticks.
>
> You can nest commands with ``, it's just less intuitive; each of the
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with
> backticks.
You can nest commands with ``, it's just less intuitive; each of the
following are equivalent:
echo $(echo $(echo $(echo $(echo foo
ec
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:33:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick
wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
>
> But nowhere near as clear.
>
>> Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:34:37 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
> >
> > But nowhere near as clear.
> >
> >> Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key
> >> above TAB and to the left of 1.
> >
> > I r
On 10/08/2009 11:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 08 October 2009 21:27:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote:
I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do
remember using nested $() commands...
Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at lea
On Thursday 08 October 2009 21:27:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote:
> > I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do
> > remember using nested $() commands...
> >
> > Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at least) anyway?
>
> Hopefully not!
On 10/08/2009 09:33 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
But nowhere near as clear.
Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key
above TAB and to the lef
On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote:
I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do
remember using nested $() commands...
Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at least) anyway?
Hopefully not! It's just two key presses to type "``". "$()" takes 4
(shift+4+9, command, shi
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
> >
> > But nowhere near as clear.
>
> And it's q
On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
>
> But nowhere near as clear.
And it's quicker to type "$(" - muscle memory - than to do the whole hunt-
pe
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
But nowhere near as clear.
> Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key
> above TAB and to the left of 1.
I rest my case :)
Note you can al
On 10/08/2009 06:28 PM, James wrote:
One final question. When I run this command:
emerge -1 $(qlist -I x11-drivers)
I get this error:
'x11-drivers/ati-drivers' is not a valid package atom
Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
Try: emerge -1 $(qlist -I x11-drivers)
And it's usually quicker
Jesús Guerrero terra.es> writes:
> Probably the colors screwing everything, as always. Try searching the
> qlist man page for something like --nocolor or --color=never.
Yep:
emerge -1 $(qlist -IC x11-drivers)
works just fine
thx
James
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:28:12 + (UTC), James
wrote:
> Jesús Guerrero terra.es> writes:
>
>
>> You can't since you want to use ati-driver/fglrx. The fglrx is not part
>> of
>> the kernel, it's only shipped in the form of a binary-only closed
source
>> kernel module. fglrx doesn't need (and mos
Jesús Guerrero terra.es> writes:
> You can't since you want to use ati-driver/fglrx. The fglrx is not part of
> the kernel, it's only shipped in the form of a binary-only closed source
> kernel module. fglrx doesn't need (and most likely will fail as you see)
> the in-kernel radeon drm driver. S
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