[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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