[This post is intended to inject a little humor and education into this thread that is relevant to recent posts. Please do not take it as any kind of criticism or contempt. Just a little advice from an "old-timer". Thanks. ]
Quote:
Originally Posted by hawhill
That search box really has nothing to do at all with "the command line", i.e. a shell prompt. The single quote (') isn't dangerous at all. In the search box it just has no meaning that would have helped with your problem. On a typical shell command line, it would introduce a string. The ">" that the shell displayed is a continuation marker, telling you that you're still in the course of entering a string. You mark the end of such a string with another single quote ('). This is all horribly Off-Topic in this particular thread, so I stop here.
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@anonimo200: What
hawhill said is all documented in "The Manual" (the 'T' and 'M' in "RTFM").
RTFM is considered by many to be "The First Commandment of Technology", and it may have first appeared in print in 1979 on the Table of Contents page of the LINPACK Users Guide. RTFM was in common use in the US Air Force in the early 50's as well, but nothing in print is known to have survived from that earlier time.
RTFM links:
http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/299a/?srp=12
http://xkcd.com/293/
http://www.readthefuckingmanual.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM
A variant of RTFM is UTSL:
http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UTSL.html
(
Yifanlu referred
geekmaster to "The Source" on the IRC channel!)
[ This may be 
and
but I think it's required knowledge at this point. 
]
EDIT: This is cool too (been there, done that):
http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFB.html
And, on a related note: while FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is commonly pronounced "fack", how do you pronounce the acronym for "Frequently Unanswered Questions" (in the all-too-common "me too" threads scattered across the net)?
http://traevoli.com/fuq.php
