Comments on: Mint 6: 3 new commands

By: oes tsetnoc

oes tsetnoc — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:41:29 +0000

Does anyone know what I have to change for showing the thumbnail and just the excerpt with it?? on my /etc/samba/smb.conf

By: Angelo

Angelo — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:25:36 +0000

> {} works.

You’re right, in bash it works. In fish I need to escape them. Stupid me to not have tried in bash before asking…

By: Sorpigal

Sorpigal — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:08:27 +0000

@Angelo

{} works. Curly braces are not special enough that you need to escape them.

Also, consider using + instead of \; when you want to operate on a bunch of files and don’t need to do one at a time (as in your example). It works like piping to xargs instead of using -exec, but you avoid the extra process. man find for details.

By: Clem

Clem — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:40:14 +0000

Angelo: We don’t do marketing hype, this has one purpose only: to simplify your usage or Mint and make it more comfortable. I personally use the search command A LOT, and that’s the reason it’s here.. because for simple things we shouldn’t have to google up complicated commands. Read the blog post and you’ll see, it’s no secret these commands are indeed just shortcuts but they make our life easier and yes, I do believe they add a lot to this particular release.

By: Angelo

Angelo — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:30:42 +0000

Nice marketing hype, but
apt content = dpkg -L
apt contains = dpkg -S
search for text in directory = find directory -type f -exec grep -iH text –color=auto -n {} \;
New commands? Hardly. “search” could be useful, but then, it could be better without “for” and “in”.
Sorry, I usually appreciate your work, but this thing looks really like a n00b bait.

P.S. Does “{}” work? Shouldn’t it be “\{\}”?

By: Eder

Eder — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:39:04 +0000

Very good..
Thats features are realy util..
All distros maybe adopt this.. 😉

By: fosron.lt » Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" RC1

fosron.lt » Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" RC1 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:54:25 +0000

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By: tim

tim — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:08:25 +0000

Thanks Clem for this useful new features
but for “apt contains” I don’t need a path?
{~._.~}
( Y )
()~*~()
(_)-(_)
tim@mint-felicia ~ $ apt contains GPL.txt
mintsystem: /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/GPL.txt
mintupdate: /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/GPL.txt
I like the “search” command, because I’m not a big fan of tracker!
its powerful to find text also in binaries
Now I can find my stuff 😉
cheers
Tim

By: Roberto

Roberto — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:28:54 +0000

Hi,

Mint’s Review on Distrowatch (Overviews)

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20081006#feature

MINT GNOME MAIN EDITION COMMANDS TEST

Commands (3) – search – apt contains – apt content – has been added

Romeo enabled (sources.list) and – apt-get update
mintUpdate has installed mintUpload 2.0 – mintsystem 5.5

Test:

roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $ apt content mintsystem
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/linuxmint
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/templates
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/templates/preferences
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/templates/apt.conf
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/icon.png
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/GPL.txt
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/python
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/python/configobj.py
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version/mintInstall
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version/mintInstall/portals.list
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version/mintInstall/release.id
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/version/mintInstall/sources.list
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin/apt
/usr/local/bin/search
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/mintsystem
/usr/share/doc/mintsystem/copyright
/usr/share/doc/mintsystem/changelog.gz
roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $

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roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $ apt contains /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/GPL.txt
mintsystem: /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/GPL.txt
roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $

——————————————————————

roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $ search –help
usage: search [arguments] [options]
arguments:
for text
in directory
options:
-c | –case-sensitive
-s | –show-filenames-only
roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $

———————————————————————-

roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $ search for workgroup in /etc/samba
/etc/samba/smb.conf:26:# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
/etc/samba/smb.conf:27: workgroup = MSHOME
roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $

roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $ search in /etc/samba for workgroup –case-sensitive –show-filenames-only
usage: search [arguments] [options]
arguments:
for text
in directory
options:
-c | –case-sensitive
-s | –show-filenames-only
roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $

roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $ search in /etc/samba for workgroup -s
/etc/samba/smb.conf
roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $ search in /etc/samba for workgroup -c
/etc/samba/smb.conf:26:# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
/etc/samba/smb.conf:27: workgroup = MSHOME
roberto@roberto-desktop ~ $

————————————————————————–

Please, take a look at my results.
Roberto