[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Sat Feb 2 13:01:50 EST 2013


VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <nospam-32427A.15340602022013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>> In article <00ACE3CF.59FF1380 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
>> VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>
>>> On linux:
>>>
>>> vaxman at Satellite:~$ man cd
>>> No manual entry for cd
>>>
>>> I suppose I'll never know what 'cd' does now.
>> This on OS X:
>>
>> man bash | col -bx | sed -n '/^SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS/,$p' | less
>>
>> And in less you can use the vim navigation commands such as G (end of 
>> file) and gg (top of file).  In less type: 
>>
>> /cd<CR>n
>>
>> to get to the entry for cd.
>>
>> To be pedantic, the above gets you extra info after the end of the 
>> Builtins section, but that is left as an exercise for the reader
>>
>> (IOW can't be bothered doing it at the moment, lots of posts to catch up 
>> on :-))
> 
> The sarcasm missed yet again...
> 

Sarcasm is often the victim of written communications.  There can be so 
much more to communication than just words.



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