Newbies would be well served to visit the Unix Guru Universe website at www.ugu.com
You can subscribe to a mailing list which sends you daily tips. By reading through the archived tips you will soon get a grep of things. guy > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 26 August 2002 10:21 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Newbies problems > > > > 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 books later I discovered it > stood for LiSt > > files!! Now if someone had told me that at the beginning, I'd have > > remembered it no trouble. > > Now this I like, someone who actually went out and read a book or a > tutorial on the net and worked something out for himself. Yes, some of > the command line commands have very short and cryptic names. Remember > they were probably developed on teletype machines or terminals running > at 1200 baud (or less?) by people who used the command line all day > every day. hence tr=translate, cp=copy, mv=move, ls=list, > Now where the > hell did they get awk, glob & grep from? > > You'll get used to it. I regularly type ls in dos boxes now, > only to be > told "Bad command or file name" > > > > > Similarly, pwd - Print Working Directory. Obvious what it > does when you > > know what it stands for. > > > > 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 remember correctly" "Rolling on the floor > > laughing"? Or at least "In my HO" to give a clue? > > These have nothing to do with linux, you will encounter them in every > newsgroup, mailing list and web forum on the net. It is > extremely easy > to find or guess what they mean. They reduce the amount of traffic on > the list (a bit). You might change the odd person's habits, but you > aren't going to change the rest of the world, better to learn a frew > acronyms, you'll need 'em elsewhere. > > > > > > OK, I know some people are not good typists, but we all > have to learn, eh? > > > > But more important, we should avoid using acronyms when > answering posts in > > case newbies are reading them too, and especially when > answering a newbie's > > post. > > > > Don't mean to offend anyone, just my 0.02c worth. > > > > David Stringer > > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
