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[Perry]

Le Thursday 13 August 2009 06:40:40 Steven Vollom, vous avez écrit :
> On Wednesday 12 August 2009 06:15:58 pm John L Vifian wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 August 2009 1:12:27 pm Steven Vollom wrote:
> > > steven at Yeshua:~$ less sources.list
> > > sources.list: No such file or directory

Take it easy, Steven, 
there are indeed many many things to "understand" and we all know the 
beginning is quite steep. But you will learn the essentials progressively.
Remember your thread "Locked up in boot process", you were looking in the 
wrong drive.
Likewise the message "No such file or directory" often means you are looking 
in the wrong place, or you misspelled the name, or exceptionnaly it just 
isn't there.
Unless you're locked up in a command line, just use Dolphin and 
the 'find-file' in tools (first place yourself in '/' an make sure 
to 'include the sub-folders'.

Now about the command 'less sources.list'
If you type 'man less' it doesn't take long to figure out that tjis command is 
meant to display the content of a big file in a shell (you can scroll up[b]  
or down[space], [q] to quit), but it is not needed in a graphical 
environment. 
So when John Pierce asked you to do "a less sources.list from the CLI" he may 
as well have said to: find this file in Dolphin and open it with Kate (menu 
display lets you show line numbers, or F11)

"Understanding"  'less' or 'more' or 'vi' or 'cat' or 'cd' or 'ls' does not 
mean you have at once to know all about them and all their options. If you 
can only figure out what the command is used for in the given context you 
will have a broader view and see that you can use other tools you are more 
familiar with. Familiarity will come with time, don't waste it on every 
stumbling block and leave for later what you don't understand now.

Cheers		Perry

P.S. In a following related thread you said:
> Apparently I did not save the email that this refers to.
Strange, my mail is automatically saved in KMail when I download.
Mail from this list gets filtered in a 'newUbu' mail folder; after a week or 
so I copy mail of interest (flagged) in an 'oldUbu' mail folder and 
*actively* discard what remains.

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