On 12/12/20 1:41 PM, John Dammeyer wrote:
From: Nicklas SB Karlsson [mailto:nk@nksb.online]
To make a link to a file "ln -s filename filename", read manual page
"man ln", I always create the link in the wrong direction first time.
Oh gawd, that would mean using the command line. How antiquated is that when
the File manager drop down menu and dialogs do it for you?
<GRIN>
John
Example for file name linking would be easier to understand this way
ln -s original.file myFileName
Note that -s means symbolic link that works across the partitions.
Better yet just use manual pages for linking command
man ln
NAME
ln - make links between files
SYNOPSIS
ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME (1st form)
ln [OPTION]... TARGET (2nd form)
ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form)
ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET... (4th form)
There is an excellent file management utility mc (Midnight Commander) as
Gene has pointed out. It allows you to execute, copy, or look into any
kind of file in text or hex mode which your windog crap can't do with
default utilities! A GUI version of mc is krusader (in KDE) with the
same layout.
Command line rules! Anybody can cut/paste a set of commands to tell
others what to do for a certain effect. Impossible with GUI. What's also
very important is the history of previously executed commands. You can
repeat them or find out where you made a mistake.
Command line has one other advantage, it tells you names of commands as
soon as you start typing first few letters if you tap Tabs key, example:
l Tab <--- would respond with
Display all 167 possibilities? (y or n)
if you enter "y" then all commands will show up.
All that Desktop crap is for people with IQ bellow 100 which is what the
internet has come to. The latest trend is to create same sub-directories
in users home directory as in Windows and call the folders. What's folded???
That's total nuts. When the first letter of a directory or a file name
is capitalized you need two fingers to handle it. How is that helpful to
people with one hand or people with poor vision?
LinuxCNC should work without GUI in the first place. A decent text based
menu should be enough to run most jobs. Original or old CNC machines
have no GUI in the first place! ncurses were invented way back to create
nice menus on text terminals. Clicking on pixel icons does not add value!
Enough of Computer literacy 001.
</GRIN>
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Rafael
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