Re: [Haifux] RFC: Summary of the Basic Use Lecture

[Orna Agmon]

i find that new users mostly need to be told of the powers of grep and
find, and regexp in general. they dont even think such things exist, so
they do not look for them.
ladypine.

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:

>
> I prepared a summary of what I think the basic use lecture should look
> like. I'm not sure about some parts, so your comments are welcome.
>
> BTW, should we discuss it in the projects' mailing-list?
>
> Regards,
>
>       Shlomi Fish
>
>
> X and KDE
>     - Similarities to Windows:
>         - The K Menu
>         - Windows
>         - The Help System
>         - The File Manager
>         - Konqueror
>     - Virtual Desktops
>         - The Window List
>     - Cut & Paste
>         - Klipper
> Console
>     - Opening a Terminal
>     - Exiting from a terminal
>     - Shell Goodies:
>         - Recalling Previous commands with up/down arrow
>         - Command Line Editting (left/right, Alt+F/B, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+A)
>         - Tab filename completion.
>     - Case Studies:
>         - Displaying the files in a given directory
>         - Recalling Previous Commands with up and down.
>         - Creating an archive. (tar -czvf hello.tar.gz mydir)
>             - Never (!) create an archive of files in the same directory.
>             (else "tar -czvf *" may erase one of the files.)
>         - Extracting an archive. (tar -xzvf)
>         - Displaying the contents of an archive without opening it.
>             (tar -tzvf)
>
>             NOTE:
>
>             Should we use zip instead of tar.gz ?
>             Should we cover archives at all in this lecture?
>
>         - Making backups of all the files:
>             for I in *.c ; do cp $I $I.bak ; done
>             (this diverts into shell scripting, but we should do it to
>             demonstrate the power of the UNIX shell)
>         -
>
>
>
>
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