Keith Roberts wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
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> From: John Summerfield <debian(a)herakles.homelinux.org>
> Subject: Re: The emperor's New Inittab
>
> Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
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>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> The quick way to get an answer is:
>>> find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} \;
>>> and examine files listed.
>>
>> Surely you want a pattern in there somewhere?
>>
>> Without one, that command never terminates - grep will sit there
>> interpreting the value of {} as a pattern and trying to read from stdin:
>>
>> $ find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} \; &
>>
>> $ ps ax | grep grep
>> 1849 pts/48 S+ 0:00 find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} ;
>> 1850 pts/48 S+ 0:00 grep -l /etc/motd
>>
>> Been doing that for a while now...
>>
>> Bryn.
>
> One hopes Chuck (and others) can read a man page:-) I gave a skeleton
> for finding files and doing something with them.
Well if one was to use something like:
# pinfo manpage
then there is not a problem.
# info manpage
and I'd not put any money on it.
08:17 [summer@numbat ~]$ man O man
Are people really that thick?
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