Apology

Fixit7 · 05-02-2014, 08:55 PM

I am very sorry for the times that I have been critical.

Andy

wchouser3 · 05-03-2014, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Fixit7

I am very sorry for the times that I have been critical.

Andy

you are forgiven

DJ Shaji · 05-04-2014, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Fixit7

I am very sorry for the times that I have been critical.

Andy

9/10

rtmistler · 05-06-2014, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Fixit7

I am very sorry for the times that I have been critical.

Andy

Stats show 69 posts ... have you really been that bad? No worries, didn't notice till I saw this thread anyways.

Fixit7 · 05-06-2014, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ Shaji

9/10

I typed cat but got only a blinking cursor.

rtmistler · 05-07-2014, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Fixit7

I typed cat but got only a blinking cursor.

Beyond that, type some more stuff and hit enter and see what happens. After you typed cat<RET> that is.

DJ Shaji · 05-08-2014, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Fixit7

I typed cat but got only a blinking cursor.

Hmm.... well you gotta show that cat who's boss. Try

Code:

man cat

or try the more direct

Code:

man command cat do else bash

but you know, that's not how we do things in the linux world. So I recommend

Code:

man cat open dialog sort

Generally speaking,

Code:

times test man \
    help make man complete \
    enable man find true source for more & sleep

I want to add a command about checking file systems, but I won't

PS: "man" means "show me the manual page for". So, "man <something>" will give you information about that particular command. Press the 'q' key to exit it.

Arcane · 05-08-2014, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Fixit7

I am very sorry for the times that I have been critical.

Andy

WTF is this about? Anyway no problemo! As long as we are 'blocked' we will make mistakes by_default but that is why perfection is boring.

rtmistler · 05-08-2014, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ Shaji

Hmm.... well you gotta show that cat who's boss. Try

Code:

man cat

or try the more direct

Code:

man command cat do else bash

but you know, that's not how we do things in the linux world. So I recommend

Code:

man cat open dialog sort

Generally speaking,

Code:

times test man \
    help make man complete \
    enable man find true source for more & sleep

I want to add a command about checking file systems, but I won't

PS: "man" means "show me the manual page for". So, "man <something>" will give you information about that particular command. Press the 'q' key to exit it.

Laughing. Did you used to like to write words holding your calculator upside down too?

Long ago when we first started creating daemons as a practice in our architectures, we used to have the concept of a god process, so we all felt it was a good pun to create a "god daemon" so that's what we called our first daemons.

As well as a memorable day in the lab when we needed to look up a man page on some library function and the primary typer typed "man", "space", and then inadvertently typed "man", "space" again, and then the function name, resulting in the fist occurrence to be the manpage for ... man. And to make it worse we immediately paged down because our point of discussion was that we got a negative RETURN VALUE so we wanted to know what ERRNO values we could see and what they indicated when you got them for that function. Took us a bit, eventually asking "What the bleep did you type?!?" and then we figured it out, and of course the 'q', allowed us next to be able to see the manpage we were seeking.

Those types of things make it so that, that primary typist in that case is rarely trusted ever again to be in command of the keyboard.

jefro · 05-08-2014, 07:33 PM

Takes a big man to admit a mistake.

(I'm never that big)