on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:13:24AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler (bjb@achilles.net) wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:35:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:42:51AM +0200, Ian Balchin (fables@imaginet.co.za) wrote: > > > # pr myfile -o6 | lpr > > Well I didn't know about the pr command before... it seems to be a > filter for text files, and will re-arrange the text file similarly to > mpage, psnup, a2ps, enscript, or any of the other postscript output > re-arrangers. pr works at the text level. It's good for taking a long textfile without pagebreaks or numbering, and adding same. It's one of the older Unix utilities. > As for the "online" aspect of the man pages/docs/info pages, I've > found you have to install the package of interest in order to view its > info pages. Not a problem for stuff like lpr or ps, but... <gripe> I > wanted to learn about fvwm before installing it, and had to install it > to read the pages. </gripe> Many manpages are available online. There are man-to-web packages for Debian, someone's prolly got these posted, I'm too lazy to look. > > Learning the Korn Shell > > Korn Shell will have a lot of similarities with bash, so it's useful > to have this book. I've got this one too. Particulary the scripting examples. Though frankly I got what I needed from _Nutshell_ and _Power Tools_. > > > When I run top the processes dissapear off the bottom of the page. I > > > can find no key in the help to do this. I nuked tty5 where I was > > > running it when I tried to pipe top through more or less. > > The reason why top doesn't work through less/more is that top gives > repeating snapshots of the processes running on the machine, and so is > not suitable for piping through more or less. Not strictly. You can set iterations to '1' and save output. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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