Having trouble to print out password line

[Laura Eaves]

Hi Ned --
Did you try to remove the |lpr at the end of the line?
Just look at the output of the grep command.
The vertical bar followed by lpr only "pipes" the output of the grep command 
to the printer.
As for the manual to read, pick a command or even a library function name 
(in C anyway -- perhaps also C++) and type

man NameOfCommandOrFunction

As for typing "man command", did you think to try simply typing "man" and 
seeing what it prints? -- actually, does this print just the usage message, 
or a list of commands available? If the latter, the output would be quite 
large, as the "man" command looks in multiple places for documentation.

Good luck.
--le


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned" <ngranic at cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 1:44 AM
Subject: Having trouble to print out password line


Hi all,
I am a total novice in Linux (well, the class is intro to Unix), so I need a 
little help on this.
"This" refers to the following instructions:

6. Print out your line of the password file. Please note the space after 
your name and before the file name /etc/passwd. It is needed.
username at gort ~ $ grep your-username /etc/passwd | lpr

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So I did substitute my username in the example command line above, but 
nothing happens. Tried a number of times.

Let's resume:
Turn in the printout from part
marked as follows:
your-name
***
Lab
4.1:
Setup UNIX account
the number of hidden files in your directory.
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We are using PuTTY and SSH.
I successfully changed my initial password with passwd command, but this 
second part of the first lab about printing out the password line can't get 
to work.
Also, when I enter man command, it asks me what manual do I want? Is there 
any for a beginner like myself that will be useful to start with?

Many thanks in advance!
Ned
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