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Interesting, is there a man page or some other place that you know of that I can read about that more in depth.

Thanks.

I'm having a problem with a macro i put in my .exrc file.

Here's what I put: map #I ^[

^ [ is control-v and the escape key.

It places a # a the beginning of a line by simply hitting the #...

I got it.

putting "stty erase ^H" in my profile does the trick.

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No, that doesn't change it. The problem only occurs within a the Perl script. At leas that's the only time I've seen it.

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I've written a Perl script that prompts for asnwers to questons. At those prompts, the backspace key shows up as ^H^H.

I would like the users to have the ablility to use the backspace...

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my linux box is, for some reason, creating two files when I creat one. For example, if I create a file via the VI editor called TestFile, the box will create:

TestFile
TestFile~
...

Got it. Thanks!

Ok, I found the your post and I'm able to see the bold text and the affect I'm looking for when I do echo ^[[1mhello^[[0m on the command line.

But how can I do that in a file? I mean when I...

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On the linux box I use at work, the directories are bold type to distinguish them.

Is there a way to make certain words in a text file bold?


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I take that back. This is what you to do:

:%s/\/dir1\/dir2\/image.gif/<new file>

If this is all in a single file then go into vi and do the following:

:%s/dir1/dir2/image.gif/<new path>

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Thanks, that worked.

OK, I'm back to normal, but still baffled by an original problem I had. I'm trying to run a script out of my /home/atama/bin directory. When I type the scripts name (test)...

Uh Oh, I've really done it this time. That Path statement is supposed to read: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin. I left out the $PATH portion. What that means is, my home directoy cannot locate any of the...

Isn't there a way to make the change take affect immediatley in the Bash Shell like the "source" command under the C Shell environment.

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I'm trying to add my bin directory to my path by editing the .bash_profile. I'm adding the following:

PATH=$HOME/bin

But then when I type in "echo $PATH" my bin directory is not...