Re: Search & replace?

2001-03-15 Thread Richard Adams
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Chris Rodliffe wrote: > I have a query - is there any cunning way (using grep or some similar > command) to replace a short text string in all the files in a directory > with another specified string?I know many things are possible with > Linux, just wondering if that i

Re: Kppp

2001-03-15 Thread Shane McKeown
Ok I tried what Ken mentioned, and it worked! I thought that the Kppp GUI would have overwritten these settings in /etc/ppp/options, but it didn't. Now for the next problem: I can connect to the web, but I can't ping any external IP (can only ping the IP provided by the ISP). I think this is d

Re: Building an RPM package?

2001-03-15 Thread Marco Calistri
On 15-Mar-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Marco Calistri wrote: > >> Hello Lawson,it is a SOURCE! --cut >> After I write my SPEC file I do:"rpm -bs " > > That will build a source rpm, I think. Installing a source rpm will not > necessarily install the package, but p

Re: Changing from Upper case to Lower case -

2001-03-15 Thread Sanchet Surendra Dighe
Got it !! My home-directory contains a subdirectory 'X'. That's why only from the cron-job, the output gets garbled; else from the command prompt in the 'remind' directory, it works fine. Thanks Lawson !! -- "Sanchet Surendra Dighe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I am using bash indeed !! Bu

Re: Changing from Upper case to Lower case -

2001-03-15 Thread Sanchet Surendra Dighe
Hi, I am using bash indeed !! But, my directory reads - [sanchetd@den remind]$ ls FRIDAY THURSDAY WEDNESDAY reminder.bash MONDAY TUESDAY daily.log reminder.bash.1 Nowhere there is any 'X'. Then, why should it substitute [A-Z] with X ? as in - ++ date +%A ++ tr [a-z] X # The comm