[clue-tech] Missing Synaptic [was Re: Grab your coat, it'sstill on!]

[Silas Martinez]

Ummm..

How about

grep synaptic ~/.xsession-errors

or (to get preceding and following lines)

grep -n -A5 -B5 synaptic ~/.xsession-errors

...

the cat is redundant. I do, however, love cats. :)

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Charles W Downing <
chuckdowning at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
>
> Jed S. Baer wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:28 -0700
>> WILLIAM PATTERSON+I*I SMITH wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> [bill at localhost ~]$ tail -f --lines=20 ~/.xsession-errors
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The point of this exercise is to locate the error message relating to
>> synaptic not starting. That error message should contain the string
>> 'synaptic'.
>>
>>
>>
> What would wrong with:
>
> cat -n .xsession-errors | grep synaptic
>
> The -n would number the lines from .xsession-errors.  By "grepping" for
> synaptic, at least William would get to the ballpark of the lines we are
> looking for.
>
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> Chuck Downing
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