[colug-432] PATH; many instances of less

[Thomas W. cranston]

On 01/28/2011 08:49 AM, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
> Thomas W. cranston wrote:
>
>    
>> tom at 1520:~$ echo $PATH
>> /home/tom/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>>      
> I would have /home/tom/bin at the end of the path, not at the beginning.
> Please show the output of the following command:
>
> grep PATH ~/.bashrc
>    
tom at 1520:~$ grep PATH ~/.bashrc
tom at 1520:~$

If that is unusual, might be because I am running Ubuntu 10.04
>    
>> tom at 1520:~$ ps
>>     PID TTY          TIME CMD
>>    2300 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
>>    2366 pts/0    00:00:00 less
>>    2521 pts/0    00:00:00 less
>>    2531 pts/0    00:00:00 less
>>    2537 pts/0    00:00:00 less
>>    2545 pts/0    00:00:00 less
>>    2648 pts/0    00:00:00 less
>>    4812 pts/0    00:00:00 ps
>> tom at 1520:~$
>>      
> I am surprised at how many instances of less you have.
> When you are tired of looking at the output of one
> instance of less, how do you get out of less to the
> command line?
>    
I type q
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