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Skriven 2006-12-03 20:01:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: Re: colors
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 MK> Hey WAYNE!

 MK> Dec 03 17:10 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> OK colors -b was a bigtime wakeup call.

 MK> That should be 'dircolors -b' but you have the general idea.  In

More than the general idea, much more.
Centers of the mind concerned with expression most affected.
Not speech but vision and written text.
Meant dircolors. 


 MK> slackware you can grep dircolors from /etc/profile and it should return
 MK> something like 'eval `dircolors -b`' or something close to that.  When
 MK> a user logs in that is automagically done and if you want to change the
 MK> colors you only need to edit /etc/DIR_COLORS as root and that will

Right in the file is says taking it local makes user colors
modifiable for that user.
Ran into another /etc file that dictates sytem parameters globally,
sysconfig or some such, kept notes.

 MK> effectively alter the displayed color for whatever file type to the one
 MK> you would rather have displayed by default.  Only needs to be done once
 MK> and then it will be automagic everytime you login in the future.

I know.

 WC> So a $ sign is a pointer?

 MK> In bash it is a pointer to a variable, either global or local to the
 MK> script, as long as it isn't escaped.  To 'cat' it is a character just
 MK> like any other character by default.  

Yup, on the same page, that's what I thought.

 MK> It depends on how and where you
 MK> use it on the shell (bash).  For instance if you type 'echo $HOME' at

Heh, beat you to it, first thing I did was ls $HOME <g>
Let the system tell me what it's doing interactively.

 MK> the commandline as a user then it should report that users home base
 MK> since $HOME is a global variable to the bash shell and the $ character
 MK> in that case is a pointer.  However if you do a 'echo \$HOME' then it
 MK> will echo $HOME instead since bash will treat the escaped $ charater
 MK> and andthing that follows as characters.

Knew that also from "Unix Shell Programming" by Arthur - Burns
It's a special character.
Need to read some of that over again, and then over again.

 MK> Clear as mud?  :-)

 Crystal clear AAMOF no matter how poorly I express it.

 WC> Like $HOME points to the current user at consoles
 WC> home directory?

 MK> Yes but only to bash and other programs that recognize that as a global
 MK> variable.

 WC> I'll leave it as a root owned file modifying it as root.

 MK> Exactly.  /etc/DIR_COLORS is the default file in slackware.

Not sure you know what I mean now.
Putting a copy in wchirnside HOME so locally coloer customized.
Still intend to leave it owned by root.

 WC> You picking on me?

 MK> You did ask.

I ask one simple question, invaribly it takes me all over the place<g>
Instead of getting the one answer I get it and 12 more.

 WC> Show me one thing and invariably it sends me off
 WC> on a quest.

 MK> For sure.  'Advanced Bash Scripting' is a really good source for most
 MK> of the commands available and powerful from the commandline.  It is
 MK> your friend or at least should be.

 I've a couple of texts from school from the weeks before my back broken.
 Two are shell programming.
 2 C
 1 C++ I've little use for.

 WC> As I'd create the account separate in Firebird as a diffent user
 WC> and create enable ActiveX as that user I think it would be a minimal
 WC> security risk if I only hit the one nationally known vendors site.

 MK> That is a good idea.

It's about time.

 WC> ITMT as my normal user I would use Mozilla communicator
 WC> further isolating any browser crossover.

 MK> Another good idea.

 Paranoid, but not paranoid.
 I found a cookie today that refuses to delete.
 Figure I'll have to force it as root as it seems
 to me I recall the option force
 Guessing that's the same keeping Mplayers codecs directory locked 
 tight.
 I mean the "file or directory does not exist" yet I can't create as root?
 Has to be permissions which I realy just got onto.
 I'll be proficient in a few days from usage.  

 WC> Did I say I was taking the day off ;-)

 MK> I think you mentioned something like that earlier.  What happened?

 I've developed an addiction to Slackware.
 I like tools, you know the rest.
 
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