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

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Sat Feb 2 14:03:51 EST 2013


In article <00ACE4B6.AB53F37F at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 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 definitely not missed. :-)

But it gave me the motivation to work out the incantation given above, 
so thanks.

-- 
Paul Sture



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