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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: RTFM... I wish... (Re: appolgies "obviously")
Message-ID: <2859@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 14 May 89 12:27:56 GMT
References: <1539@cmx.npac.syr.edu> <132@mcl.UUCP>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
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In article <132@mcl.UUCP> stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions) writes:
>In article <1539@cmx.npac.syr.edu>, gefuchs@herbrand.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
>> yup, it took me a while to figure out what RTFM means (in more then one way)
>> first i tried to issue the command RTFM and unix came back telling me:
>>         RTFM: Command not found.
>
>Now there is a great idea. After reading the above article,
>I immediately created a rtfm shell script in the local bin.

Being told RTFM doesn't always help, like when the sh(1) says

	while _list_ do _list_ done

and you code

	while newfoo do ls $foo; foo=`newfoo` done

and it's days before you figure out that you gotta

	while newfoo
	do
		ls $foo; foo=`newfoo`
	done

to get sh to consume it...

In that vein, I've R'ed TMFM, and I've twiddled the permutations, but
I just can't seem to get sed(1) to print lines 110 through 115 of
a file.  It seems the most basic of things, but sed(1) insists on
printing the whole file, no matter what I do...

What is the proper one-liner syntax for that?

				--Blair
				  "I hate the stupid questions,
				   I really do.  Email, please,
				   and keep my name out of the
				   papers..."