Display all 2727 possibilities? (y or n)

[Joel]

> Here's your answer:
> 
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031104134841225
> 
> Don't let the fact that it's on a Mac OS website fool you. It's a Bash
> thing.

The server I run my personal website on is an old tangerine clamshell
iBook. :-)

> By the way, if you had searched for "y or n" "diplay all" "possibilities",
> you'd have found the answer. The number 2727 is specific to your system.

Hadn't thought that far. The number 2727 is probably what threw me off.
That's not what I'd call a naturally occurring number.

As for the tabs, that would probably be the monitor switch. It's been
giving me problems this morning.

Thanks. (and to Pedro and David, too.)

> Avi Jacobson
> avi-j at pacbell.net
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Joel
> Sent: Thu, April 14, 2005 7:44 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Display all 2727 possibilities? (y or n)
> 
> 
> I have one of those terminal switches so I can use one monitor and one
> keyboard and work out of a Fedora Core 2 box and a MSWxxx box at the
> same time. I just switched back to the FC2 box, and in the open shell
> window was the following:
> 
>     [user at workstation user]$
>     Display all 2727 possibilities? (y or n)
>     [user at workstation user]$
> 
> Nothing more. The terminal session still seems to be responsive. Neither top
> nor ps waux show anything I recognize as deviant or malignant.
> 
> A search of google for "2727 possibilities" turns up one blog and one
> post to a forum where the blogger had apparently asked the question, but
> no answer.
> 
> Anyone with any idea what's going on with this? Should I be pulling the
> ethernet and starting in on forensics? (I do need a good excuse to scrub
> and install FC3 anyway.)
> 
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