[NTLUG:Discuss] Strings in BASH, an easier way?

[terry]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:08 PM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Leroy Tennison <
> leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
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>> terry wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:13 AM, richard witt <imageek72 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Do they give the same results?
>>>>>
>>>>> $ whatis  -r . | sort | uniq | wc -l
>>>>> 4728
>>>>>
>>>>> $ man -k . | sort | uniq | wc -l
>>>>> 4728
>>>>>
>>>>> $ for i in $(echo $PATH | cut -d: -f1- --output-delimiter=" "); do
>>>>>  for j in $(ls -1 $i) ; do
>>>>>   apropos $j
>>>>>  done
>>>>> done | sort | uniq | wc -l
>>>>> apropos: fatal: regex `[': Invalid regular expression
>>>>> 4688
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> rwitt at wslinux-rwitt ~ $ whatis -r .
>>>> whatis: -r: unknown option
>>>>
>>>> rwitt at wslinux-rwitt ~ $ whatis --version
>>>> whatis from man-1.6f
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have a clue why this does not work for me?
>>>>
>>>> ___
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know, but same here.
>>> The implementation of whatis on my Slackware 12.1 system does not
>>> recognize the -r or -s switches.
>>>
>>> cap at pe-slack:~$ whatis -r
>>> whatis: -r: unknown option
>>> cap at pe-slack:~$ whatis -s
>>> whatis: -s: unknown option
>>> cap at pe-slack:~$ whatis --version
>>> whatis from man-1.6f
>>>
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>>>  Unfortunately, since you are only one dot version behind the current
>> distribution, it sounds like Slackware has fallen behind on the revisions to
>> it's utilities.
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> Yes, I am behind, but I intend to upgrade soon.
>
>  Don't know what motivated you to select that distribution but it may be
>> time to consider alternatives.  I had to do this with CentOS due to bugs in
>> the ATA software with the 5.x version (at least so far, haven't tried 5.2
>> and don't intend to after the grief I went through).  I'm now on SuSE 10.3.
>>
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>> Suggest you consider one of the "big three": Red Hat variants, SuSE (are
>> there variants?) or Debian.  If Slackware comes from one of these families
>> then that would be the logical choice.
>>
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> Don't worry, I'm not depriving myself, my Slackware system is quite the
> awesome machine and I can most assuredly upgrade my version of man when-ever
> I like, no need to switch distros just for a newer version of one
> application, and besides that Slackware 12.2 contains man-1.6f
>
> The BIG THREE - well, that's just a figure of speech, it doesn't really
> matter what distro one chooses, we all share and have access the same BIG
> batch of GNU applications. But while we are on the subject, if you'll look
> back a few years, you'll see that SuSe started out as just a German
> translation of Slackware, so in a sense, SuSe is a derivative of Slackware -
> and yes, I know they ditched Slackware's package management and adopted
> RPM.  Slackware is not primitive, it is stable.  We have more of a hands on
> approach to package management but it's that way because we want it to be.
>
> I usually don't recommend Slackware to newcomers, I recommend Ubuntu,
> Debian or Fedora.  If they were French, I'd recommend Mandriva.  If they
> were German, I guess I'd recommend SuSe  :)
>
> Actually, that last paragraph was mostly just a joke - just teasing - but
> seriously, I have recommended Slackware to newcomers and they've done quite
> well with it.  My daughter uses Slackware and she and her family are doing
> just great with it. And while my daughter and son-in-law are far from the
> geek type advanced users you and I are, the two grand kids may have quite a
> leg up in the fields of digital technology, having started their computer
> related experiences on a nice Linux machine like Slackware.  Their system is
> 12.1 soon to be 12.2
>
> It is interesting that SuSe and Slackware's release dates were so close
> this year but I must say that my

Slackware's 12.1 release beats your SuSe 11.1 by 1.1 version numbers and 8
> days  :)
>

OOops, one too many eggnogs, I messed that one up - should have  wrote:
my Slackware 12.2 release beats your SuSe 11.1 by 1.1 version numbers and 8
days  :)




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