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SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One
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SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One

by Aron Hsiao
July 2005
Beginner
720 pages
18h 15m
English
Sams
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Q&A

Q1:Is there any way to cause the ls command to display information one page at a time—for example, when showing a long directory listing?
A1: You can display information this way by using pipes and the more command, both of which are discussed in Chapter 19, “Performing Basic Shell Tasks.” To pause a long file listing after each page of output, enter
ls -l | more

When the output pauses, you can press the spacebar to continue to the next page.

Q2:What happens if I take away owning user's write permission from a file that I own? Can I still to write to it? Can I still change the file's permissions (for example, to add write permission for myself back again)?
A2: If you remove owning user's write permission from a file that you own, you cannot ...
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