I know how to update software using the Control Centre and Software
update, but how would I go about doing this from the command-line?
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Best regards,
Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Saturday 02 April 2005 06:11 pm, David Anderson wrote:
I know how to update software using the Control Centre and Software
update, but how would I go about doing this from the command-line?
___
~ maybe, there are lots of ways
. . . you could download an rpm
then, say,
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Command-line updates
Date: Sunday 03 Apr 2005 06:52
From: riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
On Saturday 02 April 2005 06:11 pm, David Anderson wrote:
I know how to update software using the Control Centre
Every now and then this has happened. I open konsole and there is no
[EMAIL PROTECTED], I reboot when this happens and usual appearance
returns. Am I inadvertently doing something to cause this?
Thanks
Rosemary
Want to buy your Pack or
On March 21, 2005 02:02, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
Every now and then this has happened. I open konsole and there is no
[EMAIL PROTECTED], I reboot when this happens and usual appearance
returns. Am I inadvertently doing something to cause this?
Thanks
Rosemary
Just a guess, but it
Hi All,
After receiving a notice of patches from mondrakeonline, is there a
commandline tool to remotely get and install these patches?
Thank for your time,
Phil
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Phil Savoie wrote:
Hi All,
After receiving a notice of patches from mondrakeonline, is there a
commandline tool to remotely get and install these patches?
Thank for your time,
Phil
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 02:52:46 +0200
Marek Pawinski disseminated the following:
As root in a konsole run this:
urpmi.update -a urpmi --noclean --wget --auto-select
You must have updates as a source installed from easyurpmi.zarb.org as
well as others.
Keeping in mind that will install
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Todd Slater replied:
uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted.
Todd
Bjrn Lundin repied:
If you don't
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [
Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [
Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple documents at the same
time. ]
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [
Similar to Find and Replace only across multiple
On Sunday 31 October 2004 11:49, SnapafunFrank wrote:
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
Or simply deletes strings within several files within a
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:40:00AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted.
Todd
--
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On Sunday 31 Oct 2004 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote:
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
Or simply deletes strings within several files within a directory? [
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi.
Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands)
that looks into a file
and delete one line if there are two equal?
Todd Slater replied:
uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted.
Todd
Bjrn Lundin repied:
If you don't
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:05:18 +
Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:01:24 +0200, Björn Olsson wrote about [newbie]
Command completion only for some users:
On my machine, which is running at msec level 4, I have two
On my machine, which is running at msec level 4, I have two accounts.
One of them is a member of the wheel group, which means command
completion is activated. The other one is just a member of its own
personal group, so command completion isn't working.
Does anyone know how to activate this
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:56, Björn Olsson wrote:
Spare yourself the horror and take my word for it - it works.
Björn
Well, I thought it was magical - so I tried
rebootin OS2 - System Relic
rebootin BeOS - System Buried
rebootin SCOUNIX - System Silly
rebootin XENIX - System Nonexistent
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:38, Eric Huff wrote:
I use rebootin windows as root. See man rebootin.
Hey! That's bloody brilliant, Mr. Olsson! I've never even known
about that command! Dang! Learn something new every day!
Holly sh*t! That's a real command. I thought for sure he was
wtf has anybody else got an email like this?
-Original Message-
From: M J Pipkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 9:18 AM
To: Tony S. Sykes
Subject: Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win
This is unsolicited spam and an invasion of my privacy. Please send
Sorry for the receipt again, just seen Margot has got one as well.
-Original Message-
From: Tony S. Sykes
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:10 AM
To: Newbie (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [newbie] command for rebooting in win
wtf has anybody else got an email like this?
-Original Message
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 19:24, Margot wrote:
I've just read through the rest of my mail, and seen that everyone has
been getting these - I hope that M J Pipkin never needs help from the
newbie list, because we're all killing him before his messages get through!
Isn't it bad
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 20:15, Margot wrote:
From the messages I received, I can't even determine the species, let
alone the sex! Could be female I suppose, but as most of the people who
upset me are male, I just naturally assumed.g
Hey - that's cool - and understood - but we can't
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 10:45 pm, ed tharp wrote:
I have used shutdown -r now (and shutdown -h now) under both 9.0
and 9.1 withiout problems. Could your problem be because you
didn't give it a timescale? It can be set to delay a short time,
in order for other connections to be closed
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows
directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the
windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot,
win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind of shell command like
reboot win and be
Anarky wrote:
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows
directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the
windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot,
win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind of shell command like
Command works fine for me. 8.0 8.1 9.0 9.1 9.2 rc2
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win
Anarky wrote:
is there any way I could give
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 5:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anarky wrote:
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in
windows directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to
logout of the windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen
and select reboot, win ...
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows
directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the
windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot,
win ... I'd
Björn Olsson wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows
directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the
windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:11:41 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Björn Olsson wrote:
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:32 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows
directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:00, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 5:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anarky wrote:
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in
windows directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to
logout of the windowmanager, return to the
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 07:15, Björn Olsson wrote:
I use rebootin windows as root. See man rebootin.
Björn
Hey! That's bloody brilliant, Mr. Olsson! I've never even known about
that command! Dang! Learn something new every day!
Unfortunately, I don't have anything on this machine to reboot
ed tharp wrote:
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:00, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 5:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anarky wrote:
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in
windows directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to
logout of the windowmanager, return
I use rebootin windows as root. See man rebootin.
Hey! That's bloody brilliant, Mr. Olsson! I've never even known
about that command! Dang! Learn something new every day!
Holly sh*t! That's a real command. I thought for sure he was
joking...
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On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 20:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt
/Data/Backup/TreePad/
cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or directory
Anne
ANNE BROKE SOMETHING!
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 12:03 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 20:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt
/Data/Backup/TreePad/
cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No
On Wednesday June 25 2003 05:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt
/Data/Backup/TreePad/
cp: cannot stat `/home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt': No such file or
directory
Anne
cp -fpuR *.hjt
On Wednesday June 25 2003 08:15 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Wednesday June 25 2003 05:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt
/Data/Backup/TreePad/
cp: cannot stat
Hi Anne,
You forgot your destination. A common error that M$ crap, I mean
products, puts us into. When you do command line copies in DOS the
default destination is assumed as the local directory.
++alan
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 04:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
What did I do wrong? The files are where
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 2:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Wednesday June 25 2003 08:15 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Wednesday June 25 2003 05:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
What did I do wrong? The files are where I specified
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ cp -fpuR /home/anne/TreePad/*.hjt
Hi, Alan. No - it's the wordwrap that split it. It was a silly
capitalisation error.
Thanks anyway
Anne
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2003 3:04 pm, Alan Carbutt wrote:
Hi Anne,
You forgot your destination. A common error that M$ crap, I mean
products, puts us into. When you do command line
Tell us what exactly you'd like to print, and we'll tell you how.
Miark
Andre Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
Other than echo is there a command similar to print in Linux? Or
is this an issue with my Linux installation?
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Hi Miark:
I'm trying to issue the following UNIX command: x=$(print $(somevariable%.c)). What this does is saves the value of the command "print $(somevariable%.c) into x, after stripping ".c" from the right side of the variable. I can then use the variable x for other commands.
Any ideas how to
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:23:36PM -0600, Miark wrote:
Tell us what exactly you'd like to print, and we'll tell you how.
Miark
Andre Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
Other than echo is there a command similar to print in Linux? Or
is this an issue with my Linux installation?
There's
There's "printf".Todd-- Todd Slater
Ok. I'll try that. Thank you Todd!
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Barry Michels wrote:
I have some ISO files (a downloaded Linux distribution), so I don't need to
use mkisofs. However, during burning, I get a coaster, then the following
disc is ok. The next one is a coaster, then ok. I ended up with 7 good
discs and 4 coasters. There were no changes made
Hey,
cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was
85%.
Well, as long as the FIFO doesn't go empty I don't think you need to
worry about anything. The CD-RW has a buffer of its own, so I assume
if FIFO runs out of data there
Hey,
I have some ISO files (a downloaded Linux distribution), so I don't need to
use mkisofs. However, during burning, I get a coaster, then the following
disc is ok. The next one is a coaster, then ok. I ended up with 7 good
discs and 4 coasters. There were no changes made to the
On Tuesday July 23 2002 06:30 pm, Barry Michels wrote:
I have some ISO files (a downloaded Linux distribution), so I don't
need to use mkisofs. However, during burning, I get a coaster, then
the following disc is ok. The next one is a coaster, then ok. I
ended up with 7 good discs and 4
Hi,
cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was
85%.
I've stayed out of this 'cause I don't have any 800mb media, never
tried/seen any. On another count, I prefer to use mkisofs to make the
img, then write to cdr, so I've
Roman Korcek wrote:
Hi,
cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was
85%.
I've stayed out of this 'cause I don't have any 800mb media, never
tried/seen any. On another count, I prefer to use mkisofs to
Hi,
I use 800mb blank discs.
I get mencoder to create 780mb film.avi files which I write to disc.
b) mkisofs / cdrecord using a pipe
===
mkisofs -r -J -v film.avi | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data
-pad
-eject -ignsize
This does the mkisofs to cdrecord on
Roman Korcek wrote:
Hi,
I use 800mb blank discs.
I get mencoder to create 780mb film.avi files which I write to disc.
b) mkisofs / cdrecord using a pipe
===
mkisofs -r -J -v film.avi | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data
-pad
-eject -ignsize
Hi,
mkisofs -r -J -v film.avi | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data
-pad -eject -ignsize
Could it be that cdrecord is just missing the final - on the command
line telling it to use stdin?
so how would this be done then ?
IIRC:
mkisofs -r -J -v film.avi | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data
Roman Korcek wrote:
Hi,
mkisofs -r -J -v film.avi | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data
-pad -eject -ignsize
Could it be that cdrecord is just missing the final - on the command
line telling it to use stdin?
so how would this be done then ?
IIRC:
mkisofs
On Monday July 22 2002 12:54 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was
Where should I go to find a listing of the command-line commands? I've been
trying to copy the MP3's from the CD's that I burned over to a personal
folder, but it buggers up rather often. Last time I tried, it gave me an
error message when the file was at the end of being copied that it
On Saturday 18 May 2002 18:03, you wrote:
Where should I go to find a listing of the command-line commands? I've been
trying to copy the MP3's from the CD's that I burned over to a personal
folder, but it buggers up rather often. Last time I tried, it gave me an
error message when the file
Saturday 18 May 2002 10:03 am,Chris Ames wrote:
Where should I go to find a listing of the command-line commands? I've been
trying to copy the MP3's from the CD's that I burned over to a personal
folder, but it buggers up rather often. Last time I tried, it gave me an
error message when the
The book Linux in a Nutshell is very handy for this. Bookpool.com has it for about
$20. Or type info in a terminal window and browse the topics. Once you've found a
command you want more detail on, type man [name of command].
--
Warren Post
Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras
On Sun, 19 May 2002 09:44, Roger Sherman wrote:
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Chris Ames wrote:
Where should I go to find a listing of the command-line commands? I've
been trying to copy the MP3's from the CD's that I burned over to a
personal folder, but it buggers up rather often. Last time I
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 09:07, Michael Adams wrote:
On Sun, 19 May 2002 09:44, Roger Sherman wrote:
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Chris Ames wrote:
Where should I go to find a listing of the command-line commands? I've
been trying to copy the MP3's from the CD's that I burned over to a
personal
Chris Ames wrote:
Where should I go to find a listing of the command-line commands? I've been
trying to copy the MP3's from the CD's that I burned over to a personal
folder, but it buggers up rather often. Last time I tried, it gave me an
error message when the file was at the end of being
Does anyone know it?
db wrote:
I am new to Mandrake and Linux. During the install I setup the tiny
firewall and changed the Security level to Medium. Upon revisting the
security section (thru the KDE interface) twice since, it tells me that
the
firewall is in place but each time
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:30:45 -0800, db wrote:
Does anyone know it?
db wrote:
I am new to Mandrake and Linux. During the install I setup the tiny
firewall and changed the Security level to Medium. Upon revisting the
security section (thru the KDE interface) twice since, it tells me
I've just started playing around with the latest beta(also first time
using Mandrake). Since I don't use any X programs, is there a command
line updater with Mandrake? Something similar to up2date with redhat.
Thanks
Chad
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From: Loke Kit Kai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mandrake List (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:02 PM
Subject: [newbie] Command not found
Hi,
I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a partition
first,
then delete and reallocate it during the install.
However
)
Subject:[newbie] Command not found
Hi,
I successfully solved the partition problem by creating a
partition first,
then delete and reallocate it during the install.
However, when I went into console using the ALT + CTRL + F1,
login
Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the
user, and let us know what you get.
/bin/echo $PATH
As the user, you should get something like this in return:
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH
Of Tim Holmes
Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found
Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the
user, and let us know what you get.
/bin/echo $PATH
As the user, you should get something like this in return:
[timh
Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found
Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the
user, and let us know what you get.
/bin/echo $PATH
As the user, you should get something like this in return:
[timh@r2d2 timh
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Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:22 PM
To: 'Tim Holmes'; Mandrake List (E-mail)
Subject:RE: [newbie] Command not found
Thanks for prompt reply
This is wat i have for path
/usr/local/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Command not found
fully qualify the command name. For example,
/bin/ls
/bin/cd
/bin/vi
However, if your path is as you show below, it should work. Maybe your login
script isn't exporting the path to subshells... Can see why not though
roger... thanks for the advice... i'll follow it...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FLYNN, Steve
Sent: 03 October 2001 00:57
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Command not found
It's still a bad way of doing things - if your
]]On Behalf
Of Tim Holmes
Sent: 02 October 2001 22:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Command not found
Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the
user, and let us know what you get.
/bin/echo $PATH
As the user, you should get something like
I would suggest running through these steps.
=
1) Login as root
a) As root, edit the /etc/passwd. To do that type the command vipw.
This will give you a vi editor that will edit the passwd
Need to ask you, is the below steps to change my default shell or to enable
the rest of the shells to run the commands?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Tim Holmes
Sent: 03 October 2001 00:32
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Command not found
i default my shell to csh... how do I make the login script export the
path
to subshells? or how do I change to other shell since my root account have
no problem
On Saturday 06 January 2001 10:37 am, Vic wrote:
What do I type if I want to put a user in more than
one group?
If I want o put user in groups root and audio and cdrom and
programming, what exactly do I type in the bash shell?
Vic, Take a look in DrakConf | User Manager. You can
What do I type if I want to put a user in more than
one group?
If I want o put user in groups root and audio and cdrom and programming,
what exactly do I type in the bash shell?
Thank you.
Vic
Hello all,
I'm sure someone out there can help me.
After discovering that I did not have a command line ftp program like the
one on most UNIX systems, I downloaded ftp-0.17-2mdk.src.rpm .
When I try to install it, rpm --rebuild ftp-0.17-2mdk.src.rpm
I get the following:
Thankyou all very much!
Regards
Gordon
Another very simple request! In windoze, there is an option
"Start-Programs-MSDos prompt". What's the equivalent in Linux if I boot
up with the KDE Desktop?
Thanks
Gordon
Hit the big K, then go to "Terminals" and then pick one. Or you can look on
your taskbar at the bottom, and you should see an icon that looks like a black
screen. Click in, and a terminal will come up.
Another very simple request! In windoze, there is an option
"Start-Programs-MSDos prompt".
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newbie-owner@linux-macc:
ndrake.com Subject: [newbie] Co
I'm prone to using CTRLALTF2 - F6 and just hit the old console
=o)
Lonny Selinger
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Another very simple request! In windoze, there is an option
"Start-Programs-MSDos prompt". What's the equivalent in Linux if I boot
up with the KDE Desktop?
Thanks
Gordon
--
There is a little screen on the panel called Terminal, that is the "command
Another very simple request! In windoze, there is an option
"Start-Programs-MSDos prompt". What's the equivalent in Linux if I boot
up with the KDE Desktop?
Kconsole...or if you've got a typical system, click on the small
computer screen icon that's on the bottom menu. It's an insult to
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Adrian Skywalker wrote:
If you must put . into your path, put it _after_ the other entries in your
path, not before, so that the existing command is called before the one in
the current directory.
Just a thought, from an admitted newbie.
Greetings,
Adrian
But a VERY GOOD
For you to use the "configure" command the PATH (not sure yet how to set the
PATH) to THAT dir has to be listed. If you use the "./configure" command it
means to run configure IN the dir your in.
HTH
Jaguar
"Barry Winch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./
.) for your shell, but I have
never tried (and therefore don't know how).
Half your answer! Maybe... :)
Chris.
-Original Message-
From: Barry Winch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Command execution
Can someone please
In a message dated 6/1/00 6:19:36 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command.
If I am in the directory where the programme resides and type the programme
name, I get a:
"bash: programme name: command not
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command.
If I am in the directory where the programme resides and type the programme
name, I get a:
"bash: programme name: command not found" message
If, from the same directory I type
Perhaps the confusion here is that Windows looks in the logged directory
FIRST and executes "namedcommand" if found. If the "namedcommand" is not
found it then searches the path, in order, and executes the first match it
finds. I found this handy and will alter my bash preferences to
I'm not sure if this has been answered yet, so here goes: the '.' before
the slash (./) is sort of a 'wildcard'. It means just look in the directory
that I'm in right now. I'm sure that you're aware that just a plain slash
would mean that you want to look in the root directory for said file.
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Perhaps the confusion here is that Windows looks in the logged
directory
FIRST and executes "namedcommand" if found. If the "namedcommand" is not
found it then searches the path, in order, and executes the first match it
finds. I found this handy and
Can someone please explain the concept behind ./ in executing a command.
The . tells the system to look in the current directory, it is needed when you
are trying to execute a program or shell script and your working directory is
NOT in you path. The PATH environment variable tells the
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