On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 2:15 PM Solène Rapenne <solene@perso.pw> wrote:
>
> Le Mon, 2 May 2022 14:08:23 +0300,
> Mihai Popescu <mihscu@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> > For gnome readme, there is this sequence:
> >
> > # cat <<'EOF' >>/etc/login.conf
> >
> > gnome:\
> > :datasize-cur=1024M:\
> > :tc=default:
> >
> > EOF
> >
> > It is a verbatim copy of what is displayed on the screen, Still I was
> > not able to figure out what key to press or how to type to accomplish
> > this :). I gave up and edited the file directly.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> just for posterity the following text is a shell code
>
> cat <<'EOF' >>/etc/login.conf
>
> gnome:\
> :datasize-cur=1024M:\
> :tc=default:
>
> EOF
>
>
> this tells cat to take input until it sees EOF and add the text to
> /etc/login.conf file. Then we feed it the text we want to append, and
> we tell it we finished by typing EOF. This is a command to type from a
> shell.
>
> However, if it's not clear, maybe we should reword that part to tell
> "add theses lines to /etc/login.conf" or something like that.
Well, I figure that out, but that is not my point.
I tried to do that [TAB] spaces. I fact I typed the first line, the
one with # cat ..., then [ENTER].
After that I got:
>
and [TAB] was not taken and put on the screen as a blank space.
And about the "posterity" I am not so sure anymore, seeing what is
happening to my eastern border :(. I surrender to Gnome 42 colors for
now.
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