Some help page

specfiles home
updated Dec 21 2005


Rpm related:
Rpm tips
Patches creating and applying
rpm -ba --short-circuit
extract a file from an rpm
rpm query tips for groups and --last reverse
Mandrake's help
Maximum RPM online ftp download updated Aug 28 2003

Linux related:
bashrc aliases        added Jul 02 2004
Tar gzip bzip2 tips
Kernel Compiling - 2.4.x and less - Still helpful for 2.6+      updated Sep 21 2005
Patch Patches Patching applying
Find tips                     updated Jul 02 2004
zipped HOWTO's
What are my environment variables?
 Scripts:
 bzlist gzlist       See what's in an archive. Less with lesspipe.sh does this too.
 packageless     View an installed package in Slackware
 extractorpmfile Extract a file from within an rpm
 changeR644     Change all file permissions recursively to 644
 wgetscripts.zip     wget scripts for linux and windows

Q. How can I write the output of a command to a file, and watch it too?
A. Pipe it to tee.

     make install 2>&1 | tee myprograminstall.log