Re: [PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

2021-06-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021, Paul Heinlein wrote: [heinlein@omega ~]$ echo $PWD /home/heinlein [heinlein@omega ~]$ pwd /home/heinlein pwd is part of the GNU coreutils application suite, so it's probably installed just about everywhere outside of appliance-y machines. Paul, How interesting. Saves 5

Re: [PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

2021-06-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: Are you familiar with the PWD environment variable? At the shell prompt type $ echo PWD and the present working directory will be displayed. From the "Yes, I'm old and cranky" Department: just use the pwd utility and save yourself some typing.

Re: [PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

2021-06-18 Thread Robert Citek
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 3:35 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to > > it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not > > even plugged in I look at the

Re: [PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

2021-06-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote: I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not even plugged in I look at the folder where I mounted it, and there are all the files that I thought I

[PLUG] How to tell where you're putting stuff

2021-06-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
This problem has vexed me off and on for as long as I've used Linux. I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not even plugged in I look at the folder where I mounted it, and there are all the