On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:08:43PM +0000, Todd Walton wrote: > 1) What's the best way to alias ls?
i don't alias commands, i prefer to learn to remember the commandline options. is very helpfull when working on different machines which are not always set up the way you like, or on shared root accounts where you need to compromize with your co-admins. > 3) I like 'rename' never needed it, i just do things like: for i in *.foo; do mv -i "$i" $(basename "$i" .foo).bar; done the nice thing is, that when you are used to doing it that way, doing more complex processing of a lot of files will become a lot easier: for i in *.png; do convert "$i" jpgs/$(basename "$i" .png).jpg; done (format conversion, move and rename in one go) doing these things by hand helps to keep your skills sharp. > 5) Does 'tee' have a use? it had while it was running, unfortunately the trans europe express is not going anymore :-( greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
