Re: shell script with top "can't get terminal attributes"?
Re: shell script with top "can't get terminal attributes"?
- Subject: Re: shell script with top "can't get terminal attributes"?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:06:19 -0800
At 14:14 +0000 2/11/2002, Charles Arthur wrote:
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More generally, though, as one who's excited by this big hinterland
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discovered in /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/ - in fact is standing there staring
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like stout Cortez with eagle eyes and a wild surmise on this Pacific of
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software - how does one find out what the hell all those programs *do*, and
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which is the right one to do whatever with?
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Is there a ready reference out there, or even buried OMM?
Years of apprenticeship before joining the priesthood.
The shell command
apropos
can be helpful (if you're letting the weekly cron task run one way or
another on your system).
apropos some-likely-word
(then, often, repeat with some other likely word)
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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