Anything on line. The "man" is unreadable.


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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:45:48PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> Anything on line. The "man" is unreadable.
X="1"
if [ "$X" = "1" ]; then
echo "true";
else
echo "false";
fi

while [ "$X" = "1" ]; do
echo "endless loop";
done

2 example of bash command structruces.

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David Baron writes:

> Anything on line. The "man" is unreadable.

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> David Baron writes:
>
> > Anything on line. The "man" is unreadable.
>
> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
>

This is also packaged in Debian for your disconnected convenience:

apt-get install abs-guide

dt

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On Thursday 15 March 2007 07:25, Dave Thayer wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> > David Baron writes:
> > > Anything on line. The "man" is unreadable.
> >
> > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
>
> This is also packaged in Debian for your disconnected convenience:
>
> apt-get install abs-guide
>
> dt

That looks really good, just what I was looking for. A question though. What
do I type in the browser (Konqueror for example) to get it to display?

btw. I have installed it, but not sure how to access it.

Nigel.
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:57:53PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> That looks really good, just what I was looking for. A question though. What
> do I type in the browser (Konqueror for example) to get it to display?
>
> btw. I have installed it, but not sure how to access it.

Open the file

/usr/share/doc/abs-guide/html/index.html

in your browser. I realize that this is in no way obvious.

Sometimes when you're looking at a package and thinking
"What the heck do I do with this?", your first step should
be to look in /usr/share/doc/[package-name]. If that doesn't
, often the last step is to do

dpkg -L [package-name] |less

which will display all the files that [package-name]
installed. Sometimes that will give you a clue about what it
does and where to run it from.

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:02:46AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:57:53PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > That looks really good, just what I was looking for. A question though.What
> > do I type in the browser (Konqueror for example) to get it to display?
> >
> > btw. I have installed it, but not sure how to access it.
>
> Open the file
>
> /usr/share/doc/abs-guide/html/index.html
>
> in your browser. I realize that this is in no way obvious.
>
> Sometimes when you're looking at a package and thinking
> "What the heck do I do with this?", your first step should
> be to look in /usr/share/doc/[package-name]. If that doesn't
> , often the last step is to do
>
> dpkg -L [package-name] |less
>
> which will display all the files that [package-name]
> installed. Sometimes that will give you a clue about what it
> does and where to run it from.
>
IIRC, if you ise doc-book, it also takes care of "registering" all the
documentation-related packages on your system so that you can browse
them a little more easily. I don't use it, so I am not sure, however.

Regards,

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On Thursday 15 March 2007 15:02, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:57:53PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > That looks really good, just what I was looking for. A question though.
> > What do I type in the browser (Konqueror for example) to get it to
> > display?
> >
> > btw. I have installed it, but not sure how to access it.
>
> Open the file
>
> /usr/share/doc/abs-guide/html/index.html
>
> in your browser. I realize that this is in no way obvious.

True. I've only recently found the "man:bash" command to enter into the
browser to read, in that instance the bash manual in an easier way than on
the CLI. I thought there might have been something similar for reading the
html docs.
>
> Sometimes when you're looking at a package and thinking
> "What the heck do I do with this?", your first step should
> be to look in /usr/share/doc/[package-name]. If that doesn't
> , often the last step is to do

I've usually gone into /usr/share/doc, and opened individual html files in a
text editor, yet the correct way, as you've shown is so simple.

Thanks very much for the .

Nigel.


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