The story so far.
Our family PC has 2 hard drives and when we added the second hard drive
we ran the Seagate software that was supplied and it joyfully made all
the modifications so that windows saw the second drive as additional
data storage space. We subsequently added heaps of pictures and
The story so far.
Our family PC has 2 hard drives and when we added the second hard drive
we ran the Seagate software that was supplied and it joyfully made all
the modifications so that windows saw the second drive as additional
data storage space. We subsequently added heaps of pictures
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 08:00:40PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
3) Sound Cards. Ditto - Things are getting much better than they used to
be. Kernel 2.4.19 is a huge improvement for both sound and video.
I'll comment here, that ALSA adds support for a multitude of chipsets, and
sometimes
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 08:12:09PM -0400, Andrew Tarr wrote:
/bin
'bin' for binaries, this directory contains essential system
programs. Things that you just really can't get by without are here,
like 'bash' and 'ls' and 'cd'.
'cd' is a builtin... bash does that for you.
Mike.
--
Musical caper?? I assume you are referring to my song editing
burning If so, ask any questions you like...
Anyway, I would speak on any subject I felt reasonably knowlegeable
about at a CLUG meeting. This is assuming I was deemed competent to do
so and was requested to do so either by
I have the same difficulty that Robert has - I can't play a CD in Linux. I
can do it in Windoze without trouble. I buggered around with the mixer,
which successfully changed the volumes of the other inputs (Wave, Line In)
but still the CD channel was dead. FYI: Creative PCI 64 (about three
Hi all,
I thought that was a realy good thing Andrew Tarr did with the Directory
Structure.
What I found most frustrating at first was getting to grips with the
acronyms. Dir for directory was obvious, but in Linux it was called ls.
It was some time and several books later I discovered it
Good good now we are getting somewhere, Jason I found your original post
quite negative and maybe my reply reflected that. We can physically beat
each other at the meeting. Its good to see you have refined your
requests. A demo of gui apps is a bity vague, tyour longer post more
helpful. Further
IMHO this and other questions as such scream out for
a welcome to linux heres the basics of unix commands
thru to more complicated stuff book, hopefully that
Rute manual acheives this, maybe all 'newbies' should
be pointed here before they start installing linux :-)
p.s. about the dir thing ;-)
Hi all,
I thought that was a realy good thing Andrew Tarr did with the Directory
Structure.
Yes, thanks Andrew.
What I found most frustrating at first was getting to grips with the
acronyms. Dir for directory was obvious, but in Linux it was called ls.
It was some time and several
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 10:21, Nick Rout wrote:
Now where the hell did they get awk, glob grep from?
awk
by Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger and Brian W. Kernighan.
Notice first letter of last names.
Mark
Hi all,
Would it be worthwhile for me to bring the Peanut machine I built to
the meeting? It doesn't do much, just runs Peanut Linux and KDE3.0, but
for any newbies who either don't have Linux, or have a low-spec cast
off machine to play with it might help to see how fast it runs, and
what it
Hi,
I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the
combined size of a number of files.
Like the dos dir command gives: 34 files, 390kb.
I want to know the size of a directory, with all its files, and sub-dirs
if applicable.
Must be some piping and grepping out of the ls
try du
man du
for example to see whats taking up all the space on my system
cd /
du --max-depth=1|sort -n
I think there are also options in ls to give this sort of thing
man ls
Hi,
I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the
combined size of a number of
Gerard van Antwerpen wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the
combined size of a number of files.
Like the dos dir command gives: 34 files, 390kb.
I want to know the size of a directory, with all its files, and sub-dirs
if applicable.
Must be
Zane!! You are alive. ;) I was beginnin to wonderhehe.
Zane Gilmore wrote:
du -h dir-name
where dir-name is the path of the directory.
-h just gives sizes in human readable form.
du stands for disk usage I think.
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 10:53, Gerard van Antwerpen wrote:
Hi,
I'm
the command 'ls -l' also gives the info you want on the first line of
output.
And since some distro have a line in bashrc that aliases 'dir' to 'ls -al',
on those distros the command 'dir' gives you what you want, just like the original
question. Wow - full circle.
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, stringer wrote:
[...]
I see some having trouble with the email acronyms, such as AFAIK, IMHO,
IIRC, ROTFL and so on. This really was a bad habit generated by one finger
typists (IMHO!). What does it really take to write In my humble opinion
As far as I know If I
Thanks every one for the great and quick responses!
Gerard
At 11:41 AM 8/26/02 +1200, Yuri de Groot wrote:
the command 'ls -l' also gives the info you want on the first line of
output.
And since some distro have a line in bashrc that aliases 'dir' to 'ls -al',
on those distros the command
I will hapily accept it i like any comps
Ben Devine
AKA Cocojumbo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cocojumbo.tk
irc.zerolimit.net
#cocojumbo
COCOJUMBO
Linux Kicks AZZ
The command 'ls -l' also gives the info you want on the first line of
output.
Close, but backwards compatibility strikes again. The first line of ls
-l is the amount of space taken up in blocks, not in any sensible
measure like bytes (I checked the source).
For the Newbies.
A block is
ls -alh
For those who found Drew a bit cryptic:
the 'h' option tells ls to use 'human-readable' format.
eg 3.4Mb, 1.6kb etc.
Each entry is listed in the most suitable unit.
Yuri de Groot
I'd love it. Please?
If nobody else is going to jump in, when/where can I pick it up from and
is it more of a trailer job or would it fit in a van?
Sascha
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 12:21, Nick Rout wrote:
Robert asked me to pass this on :-)
Forwarded by Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nick Rout wrote:
Although this book is about 10 years old it is the one from which I
learnt my way around the unix beast.
http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/web2/tramp2.exe/goto/A00kl2r2.002?screen=Record.htmlserver=1homeitem=8item_source=1home
It's readable, informative, and available
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
For the Newbies.
A block is the basic unit of storage on a disk. No matter how
small a file is, it will take up at least one block. This would be
snip
It's even more complicated than this. Filesystems also store information
about files
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Although this book is about 10 years old it is the one from which I
learnt my way around the unix beast.
http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/web2/tramp2.exe/goto/A00kl2r2.002?screen=Record.htmlserver=1homeitem=8item_source=1home
Sorry
Peter Norton? Isn't he the guy from Norton Antivirus, Norton Ghost and
other such famous utilites for windows? :)
Steve
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:16:29PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Although this book is about 10 years old it is the one
Hay Chris (and anyone else who feels the need to bcc the list):
Can you please not put the linux-users list in the BCC field? It means
that your email goes into the incorrect mailbox on my computer which just
confuses me...by making me wonder why on earth you sent me this email.
Cheers...
On
I'm Game! What is it?
Andy George
ZL3ST
- Original Message -
From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:21 PM
Subject: Fw: Free to a good home
Robert asked me to pass this on :-)
Forwarded by Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I say here here to that - I couldn't have put it better myself in fact - I
find myself doing some pretty silly things when I get tired and frustrated
at the only time usually available for configuring and fixing stuff-ups -
the wee dark hours - it would be nice to know what I am doing
I've just had an email exchange with Peter Cornelius and we have
established that StarOffice really does seem to be installed in
'/root/opt/Office52' . This was installed for him at the
installfest.
Please tell me it's not the case that Mandrake or any other
distribution has a habit of
if someone yells across a room where do i install open office and the
(verbal) response is opt, off the root directory or root - opt then
it could be seen as ambiguous.
Trouble is, root has no one meaning. Why didn't Kernighan Richie (or
whoever invented unix) make the superuser admin???
I
Gerard wrote:
I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the
combined size of a number of files.
Like the dos dir command gives: 34 files, 390kb.
One mouse click with a GUI file manager and result of '34 files, 390kb'
immediately displayed.
So much for those poor
Preach it Pete!
-Original Message-
From: Peter Cornelius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 26 August 2002 17:15
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: combined file sizes info, how ?
Gerard wrote:
I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the
I've just been told that StarOffice installs in the user's home
directory by default, so it may be the case that installing it as root
ended up with it being in /root .
It's still all wrong, though.
(and it's StarOffice that he has installed, and OpenOffice that he's
trying to install, BTW).
If any in the group are using visual studio .net I would be interested to
make contact with you 'off line'. Please email me direct.
Bill Wilson
Not a very well organised site. I selected 'Getting Started, How the File
System Works' and went to a page listing Newsletters, none of was referring
to file systems. I was none the wiser and needed that information before
being able to progress any further.
Peter, if you take a look, that
Ha! Peter, I love it. You've shown us up, I guess.
From your posts to this list you sound to me
like a dutchman (that's a compliment coming from me).
Thus spake Peter Cornelius on this Mon, 26 Aug 2002 :
] Gerard wrote:
]
] I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the
One mouse click with a GUI file manager and result of '34 files, 390kb'
immediately displayed.
Thats fine, but what if he is writing a script which needs to know
directory sizes for some reason?
--
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just subscribed to this group
today.
Is this the place to ask for help on individual
installation problems?
I have one or two :(
Bill
Ha! Peter, I love it. You've shown us up, I guess.
No , the question asked for a shell command (or combination of shell
commands), Peter did not give that. he has criticised the list for going
off at tangents and not answering his own questions - he has to take his
own medicine. :-)
From your
I have just subscribed to this group today.
Is this the place to ask for help on individual installation problems?
I have one or two :(
Bill
yep, fire away.
--
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great - I will get my facts sorted and post the message tomorrow.
Bill
- Original Message -
From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: new subscriber query
I have just subscribed to this group today.
Is this the
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