[wellylug] yet another simple super basic bash question

[Mark Signal]

Thank you all
as usual I have learned far more than I expected...

give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
teach the man to fish and hopefully he will stop bugging you :)

thanks to all who replied

cheers

Mark

jumbophut wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:08:49 +1300 (NZDT), David Antliff wrote:
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>>Ah, another one of those simple yet
>>hard-to-know-it-exists-unless-someone-tells-you programs. Is there a nice
>>comprehensive list of such programs somewhere?
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>>From a bash prompt: 
>a<tab> <tab>
>or
>b<tab> <tab>
>or
>c<tab> <tab>
>...
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>It sounds facetious, but it's amazing the number of intriguing
>utilities I've found on my system doing just that, then reading man
>pages for the results.  Just have a play, for the fun of learning.
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>Also, one of the 'a' entries on my system is apropos, which is a nice
>way to search man pages for a term you are interested in.
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