I have been beating my head against smartctl for over two hours now. I cannot seem to get the command

"long" accepted, as the various tutorials explain. When I try to insert it, I get an error, like this:

linux1:~ # smartctl long /dev/nvme0n1
smartctl 7.0 2019-05-21 r4917 [x86_64-linux-5.3.18-57-default] (SUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

ERROR: smartctl takes ONE device name as the final command-line argument.
You have provided 2 device names:
long
/dev/nvme0n1

(It doesn't like "short" either.)  And my typing is getting worse! It doesn't help that my drive is called /dev/nvme0n1.

As I mentioned earlier, the lightning strike has damaged something in this, my main computer, and I'm trying to

find out what. For those who missed the earlier post, the only thing I can connect to here is the internet. I cannot

see the printers or the laptop machine, and nmap basically doesn't work.

I started this quest at 11:30 PM and it's now 3:30 AM. I'm going to bed!

--doug