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CLI: Using Locate 1 31 (9/4/2005 8:20:13 AM) comp.os.linux.misc CLI= Command Line Interface Bash When you do "locate " from the commandline, you get a list of the paths to files that you have to type or cut&paste onto the commandline. Here's a simple script using Bash's... Alan

The Linux Revolution: What Happened? 56 34 (7/31/2005 1:24:20 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Let's check out what's happenning in yonder room. There are two people there, each sitting in front of a computer. One's running Linux, and the other is running Windows. Which is which? They both have screen... Alan

CLI: System Monitoring 0 25 (7/26/2005 5:13:44 AM) comp.os.linux.misc CLI - Command Line Interface System Monitoring. The watch command (man watch) is useful for this. Here's an example script, which I run in a seperate screen window (man screen: a networking textmode window ma... Alan

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Newbie: Names of shell commands 5 36 (9/13/2005 9:28:41 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi, I sometimes find myself not being able to start programs from a Shell window just because I don't know the name of the command. I thus start them from a menu instead. For example, it took me some time to ... jonas.andersson (11)

A few more newbie questions 12 27 (9/10/2005 3:36:57 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I tried using "make menuconfig" and got the following: storage:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.27# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering... martendespamkemp (62)

Copying Files and Give Extensions - Help Please 7 30 (9/10/2005 5:51:01 AM) comp.os.linux.misc I have several thousand files in a directory with generic names: dump[number_string}, like this: dump4555217. I have to keep only certain types of files. So far I use 'file' and 'grep', for example: "file /u... Picilli

running just xserver 11 67 (9/9/2005 3:46:57 PM) comp.os.linux.misc hello. just started my linux class at college. we are running fedora core 4. i am currently running at run level 3 so no xwindows, just shell. what i would like to do is just run the xserver so i can open up ... psychological_4play (3)

linux.debian.user 12 29 (9/8/2005 9:34:56 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Obviously, this is the wrong group, but for some reason i can't post anything to linux.debian.user. i'm using the latest mozilla email/news client and have tried thunderbird too. i subscribed to that newsgrou... useraddshine_eh (441)

Problem mounting iso-images 4 58 (9/7/2005 9:10:57 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I get an error when I try to mount ISO-files. (big ones, from DVD, works under windows). This is in a Fedora Core 2 dist. Have plenty diskspace free. [root@northpole iso]# ls -l total 2246996 -rw-rw-rw- 1 r... roald.amundsen (2)

rm -rf / 26 48 (9/6/2005 9:33:17 PM) comp.os.linux.misc What actually happens if you do rm -rf / ? Will the system just crash at some point or will it complete and leave you at a prompt where you can do nothing? I ask because I'm about to decommission a server and... no438 (1009)

aterm & .Xdefaults/translations? 2 57 (9/6/2005 2:48:34 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hey; Does anyone know how to make aterm or Eterm read in and use the standard ~/.Xdefaults Translations resource? I have a number of bindings to a variety of function keys; however, I can't seem to get [aE... dkoleary3 (88)

journalling fs suggestions (reiser vs xfs vs jfs)? 2 23 (9/4/2005 11:03:39 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi, Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions to which fs I should be using for a NFS server hosting my digital music/video collection which sits a old pentium2 box which gets accessed by serveral clients s... whatdoineed2do (96)

stdout redirecting 4 28 (9/4/2005 9:20:27 AM) comp.os.linux.misc How to redirect stdout to file and simultaneously to stdout (for showing normal stdout) ? For example: $ ls 1>&1 ... ??? -- ~xEM ... me565 (14)