[thechat] Mandrake Linux

[Chris Evans]

Grep is used to search for text in files.  The format of the command is
"grep pattern file".  If you try to use it like "grep file", it thinks you
are looking for the filename in the standard input.

To search for a file name, you can use "find / -name filename", replacing
the / with the appropriate subdirectory.

Hope that helps,

Chris Evans
chris at fuseware.com
http://www.fuseware.com



-----Original Message-----
From: thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Kevin Stevens
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:47 PM
To: thechat at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thechat] Mandrake Linux


Can any of you Linux bods out there give me some indication as to why the
grep command won't work in the KDE console of Mandrake 8.1? It is my
understanding that this is used to search for files, but it just makes the
console hang and I have to close it and open a new one.
Also, I think the installation has created a weird partition on the
computer, I seem to have hda0 and hda6, is this right? When I installed it I
used the easy mode, but I want to start from scratch again and partition the
disk myself but I can't work out how to re-format the drive. On Windows I
would just insert the boot disk and format from that, do I need to create a
Linux boot disk to do the same thing? I have tried to search for these
answers on various sites like Mandrake, linux.org and linuxnewbies without
any success so all pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Kevin Stevens
kjs at ratking.co.uk

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