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On Monday 26 February 2007, Dale wrote: |
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> It may be the wrong tool, but it has always worked before. I tend to |
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> use what works. I said this in a reply somewhere before. By the |
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> time I get good at using a command, like the now extinct etcat, they |
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> change it to something else with a whole different set of options. |
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> I'm hoping things will settle down then I can learn all this once. |
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kwrite is an editor designed to edit smallish files, similar but |
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slightly better than notepad. Like all small editors, it probably loads |
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the entire file into memory before displaying it, and it gets very |
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confused with some contents, thinking that they are blocks of code that |
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can be collapsed. |
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The program landscape will never settle down and leave you with a |
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definite set of programs - Linux lives, breathes, grows and evolves |
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almost exactly the way human societies do - always changing, always |
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adapting and never the same in any two places. |
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A few base programs you can rely on though - like less. It's a file |
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viewer, designed to make it easy for you to look at the contents of |
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files. It's also the thing that displays man pages. I highly recommend |
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spending the few minutes it takes to get used to using it. It runs from |
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a terminal, which is also worth spending some time to get used to it. |
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> Of course, if you wish to share a few commands with options and what |
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> they do, that may help. I'm not sure I even know what all the |
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> commands are right now. I got to much on my brain right now. It is |
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> like mush. |
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> hmmmm, I have used less for a lot for things but not files this big. |
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> I could wear out my page down key. LOL At least I don't have to |
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> look into the emerge.log very often. That's good. |
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big files the size of emerge.log (8M on my machine) is exactly what less |
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excels at. The most useful key is of course "/" which lets you enter a |
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string of text to search for, then 'q" to quit and "h" displays a help |
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screen |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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