muddlizard ([info]muddlizard) wrote,
@ 2006-03-27 16:15:00
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advice requested: relearning unix-ish stuff
So once upon a time I was a CS major at Mudd and knew lots of unix magic beyond 'cd' and 'ls'. Then I wandered off into the windows world and forgot it all. And now I'm on a mac, and starting to do some light dev stuff. Is there any sort of ...

Epiphany!
I just remembered www.cs.hmc.edu/qref and am rereading that.

So um, if I want to go a baby step beyond there, where should I turn next?
Like right now, if I do something like 'man scp' it will appear to process the command, but not actually display anything. Something somewhere's goofed up, but what?

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[info]benfrantzdale
2006-03-28 12:36 am UTC (link)
What does it do when you say man scp from a terminal? In OS X that should Just Work.

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[info]willworker
2006-03-28 12:40 am UTC (link)
There's always Unix is a Four Letter Word, but you may've seen that before, and doesn't, to my knowledge, have much that'd help you diagnose that man problem.

On what are you working, where man scp doesn't work? Does it hang, or just give you back your prompt?

Steve

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[info]muddlizard
2006-03-28 01:22 am UTC (link)
Thank you to both of you for the "it works when the expert looks over my shoulder" phenomenon. :)
It _was_ just giving me back my command prompt, but now it's working. The only thing I can think is that it was out of whack on the intel mac for some unknown reason, and then logging in on ppc fixed it. Now it's working on both systems. *shrug*

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