On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 07:35 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > That's because man pages are less than useless.
>
> Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written
> in a special dialect of English that renders
On Friday 19 January 2007 17:43, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-19-07 22:27]:
> [...]
>
> > That's because man pages are less than useless.
>
> No, they are an important part of the linux documentation. But they
> can be difficult to understand.
>
This is very true
On Saturday 20 January 2007 11:11, James Knott wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:
> >> ...
> >>
> >> That's because man pages are less than useless.
> >
> > Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are
> > written in a special d
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> That's because man pages are less than useless.
>>
>
> Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written
> in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to
>
On Saturday 20 January 2007 07:35, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > That's because man pages are less than useless.
>
> Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written
> in a special dialect of English that renders t
On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:
> ...
>
> That's because man pages are less than useless.
Aren't you the one who copped to being a manager? Man pages are written
in a special dialect of English that renders them unintelligible to
managers.
> --
> kai
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Kai Ponte wrote:
> [...]
>
> That's because man pages are less than useless.
Nonsense. Manual pages are perfect as a reference, nobody really knows
all the options for Unix commands. They are at least 10 times better
than info pages. However, both are usually not meant to be a tutorial
or a beg
On Friday 19 January 2007 19:43, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-19-07 22:27]:
> [...]
>
> > That's because man pages are less than useless.
>
> No, they are an important part of the linux documentation. But they
> can be difficult to understand.
Hence my statement.
Greg Wallace wrote:
> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what
> package it's in, if any.".
rpm -qf /path/to-file
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* Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-19-07 22:27]:
[...]
> That's because man pages are less than useless.
No, they are an important part of the linux documentation. But they
can be difficult to understand.
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On Friday 19 January 2007 19:25, Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 15:54, Greg Wallace wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > I did read the man pages but couldn't find this. ...
>
> That's because man pages are less than useless.
Yup. They've been known to suck the knowledge right out of your head.
On Friday 19 January 2007 15:54, Greg Wallace wrote:
> On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 4:01 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> >On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote:
> >> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me
>
> what
>
> >> package it's in, if any.".
> >
> >You really
Greg,
On Friday 19 January 2007 15:54, Greg Wallace wrote:
> On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 3:55 PM, Randall Schulz wrote:
> >On Friday 19 January 2007 13:37, Greg Wallace wrote:
> >> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file.
> >> Tell me what package it's in, if any.".
> >
>
On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 4:01 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
>On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me
what
>> package it's in, if any.".
>You really need to start reading manpages and info pages, and "command
>--help" is
On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 3:55 PM, Randall Schulz wrote:
>On Friday 19 January 2007 13:37, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell
>> me what package it's in, if any.".
>% rpm -q --whatprovides /name/of/file
>E.g.:
>% rpm -q --whatprovide
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote:
>
>> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what
>> package it's in, if any.".
>>
> You really need to start reading manpages and info pages, and "command
> --help" is also often useful. :-)
On 2007-01-19 15:37, Greg Wallace wrote:
> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what
> package it's in, if any.".
You really need to start reading manpages and info pages, and "command
--help" is also often useful. :-)
rpm -qf /dir/file
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On Friday 19 January 2007 13:37, Greg Wallace wrote:
> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell
> me what package it's in, if any.".
% rpm -q --whatprovides /name/of/file
E.g.:
% rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/cat
coreutils-5.3.0-20.2
> Thanks,
> Greg Wallace
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> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what
> package it's in, if any.".
rpm -qf
> Thanks,
> Greg Wallace
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Am Freitag, 19. Januar 2007 22:37 schrieb Greg Wallace:
> Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file.
> Tell me what package it's in, if any.".
rpm -qf /file
bye,
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Is there an RPM command where you can say "Here's a /dir/file. Tell me what
package it's in, if any.".
Thanks,
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