Allegedly, on or about 24 August 2014, Tod Merley sent several major syntax errors: > tail dmesg #prints the last ten lines of dmesg You mean: dmesg|tail You have to pipe the output of dmesg through the tail command, to do what you want to do. > less dmesg #prints several lines of dmesg with response to up/down > arrow to see the whole file - q to end Likewise, you really mean: dmesg|less To pipe the output of the dmesg command through the less command, to allow paging through it. > cat dmesg #prints the whole dmesg file to the screen all at once Also, wrong, and another completely unnecessary use of a cat. Just use the dmesg command, by itself, and you'll see the whole output dumped to screen. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. ZNQR LBH YBBX -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
