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[ILUG] love this feature

[ILUG] love this feature

Philip Reynolds philip.reynolds at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 16:15:28 GMT 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:
> /me hates it.
>
> every time I mis-type something, I then have to cancel the stupid thing,
> which starts trying to install my mis-typed command.
>
> also, if you do it as a non-root user, it goes, downloads the needed files,
> then totally fails to ask for root permissions to install it.

If you're using bash, it's more than likely hooking into
command_not_found_handle

$ sl
The program 'sl' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install sl
sl: command not found
$ unset -f command_not_found_handle
$ sl
bash: sl: command not found

Phil.


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