The emperor's New Inittab

[John Summerfield]

Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>> From: John Summerfield <debian at 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 at numbat ~]$ man O man
Are people really that thick?




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