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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What is this command string doing? Post 70630 by coco on Monday 2nd of May 2005 04:36:54 PM
Old 05-02-2005
What is this command string doing?
I am new to this forum; actually, this is the first forum I've ever joined of any kind. Looking forward to using it.

I know some basic UNIX, but this is over my head. Can someone tell me what this is doing?

export MY_ROOT=${MY_ROOT:-$(expr "$0" : '\(.*\)/bin/.*')}

Thanks!
 

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alcc

ALCC(1) 							  aMule utilities							   ALCC(1)

NAME

       alcc - text based eD2k links calculator for aMule

SYNOPSIS

       alcc [-p] [-v] <inputfiles_list>

       alcc [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       Compute the eD2k links of all the input files given in the <inputfiles_list> (There can be one or more files).

       [ -p, --parthashes ]
	      Compute and add part hashes to the computed eD2k links.

       [ -h, --help ]
	      Prints a short usage description.

       [ -v, --verbose ]
	      Be verbose - show also calculation steps.

REPORTING BUGS

       Please report bugs either on our forum (http://forum.amule.org/), or in our bugtracker (http://bugs.amule.org/).  Please do not report bugs
       in e-mail, neither to our mailing list nor directly to any team member.

COPYRIGHT

       aMule and all of its related utilities are distributed under the GNU General Public License.

SEE ALSO

       alc(1), amuled(1), amulecmd(1), amuleweb(1), cas(1), ed2k(1), wxcas(1), xas(1)

AUTHOR

       This manpage was written by Vollstrecker <amule@vollstreckernet.de>

aMule eD2k links calculator					   November 2011							   ALCC(1)
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