[mythtv-users] BE errors

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Wed Sep 11 20:33:05 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/11/2013 03:08 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> ...
>
>  I don't think it's done because I can't use the up or north key to scroll
>> through previous commands.
>>
>
> It is done because you got a prompt ($) back. The
> reason you can scroll is that when you su'd to
> the mythtv user, your shell became sh. You're
> accustom to using the bash shell.
>
> Had you typed:
>
>      sudo su --preserve-environment mythtv
>
> you would have used the same environment.
> See: man su for details.
>
> If you don't believe that it's done, why not
> use the ls command and see if the file was
> created. Also, you could type man touch to
> see exactly what the command does.
>
> You'd also learn that you can touch more than
> one file at a time. In fact, you could do all
> of them on one command line.
>
> --
> Bill
>
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Great thanks for the clarification, I can't "touch" any more because I
closed the previous terminal and now the same command does not give the
required file numbers.

Daryl
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