Hi Jeff, Jeff Liebermann Inscribed thus:
Trying to avoid comming down to one particular Distribution/Desktop because of pet hates/likes, the OP indicated he had a lessor machine which might struggle with Gnome2/KDE4.
LXFE like Ubuntu never really excited me but though lightweight its quite useable with its own character.
The window manager tends to be more background related
Very true...
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Best Regards:
Baron.
If there's anyone still using tape, yeah that puts the contents of a file called /home/mydir onto the tape in 1024 byte chunks and then rewinds* the tape.
If mydir is actually a directory you'd use "tar", the tape archiver instead.
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No it's much more dangerous than that!
Answer tomorrow.
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some versions of windows (vista?) would offer hyperterminal if you ran telnet.
"7" has dropped both I think.
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What, while everyone tries it? :)
"." is shorthand for the name of the current directory, so .* matches the entire current folder. Rather than the "all hidden files" you were gunning for. BTDT :)
-- John Devereux
That would be "./*" for the current directory.
It *is* safe to try "echo .*" to get an idea of what will (would!) happen and compare it to "echo ./*" Note that the -r option to rm is "recursive" so it will reach a lot farther than echo does.
In a regex, dot matches anything. To actually match dot, you have to put in a backslash. The shell doesn't behave like that, though--e.g. 'ls .*' matches just hidden files.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
Oh yes, it matches ".." too (the parent directory) and by extension the whole file system I imagine.
-- John Devereux
Yes, including "." and ".." :)
-- John Devereux
Did you try it?
'.*' will also match '.' and '..', so it will try to wipe out all that too, recursively. Of course, unless your name is Jan, it will only wipe out all your own files.
Try it with ls, you'll see.
Jeroen Belleman
Not on my system, it doesn't.
[pcdh@orthodox temp]$ echo .* . .. [pcdh@orthodox temp]$ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
And of course using -rf with any wildcard is idiotic.
Cheers
Phil
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
Well is the ".." not the parent directory?
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Only in a few cases, it is normally "../".
I did warn them.
It also matches ".." so if you have permission it removes the all the content of the parent directory leaving only the now empty current directory.
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Yes, nice one. I indeed would not have expected that.
This could in fact arise in real life, for example a project folder with a .git repository that you want to "start again", deleting .git/ and keeping just the live project files. I *might* just be tempted to do rm
-rf .*, saving two characters of typing compared to rm -rf .git. Especially if there were other dotfiles there that I did not want.
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It worked that way for me back when i used it. Gad, was that win98 days?
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Ok. I wasn't able to install freecad either on Ubuntu 10.04; however, I was able to get it to work on Linux Mint 14, which I had installed on a USB drive.
Hey, if they've fixed the dvdauthor bug in Mint 14, I just might switch.
Volume control is still linear however, not logarithmic. (sigh)
Michael
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able to get it to work on Linux Mint 14, which I had installed on a USB drive.
dvdauthor still wasn't working out-of-the-box in Mint 14, but I Googled a bit, found a solution, and it works now!
Mint 14, here I come!
Michael
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