I agree :) one of my favourite ls discoveries is the -Q switch... it makes life so SO much easier sometimes - if you are doing scripting for example... because it puts the entire file name in quotes...
It mightn't seem obvious immediately why this is useful but when you need it you'll know :) James On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Ken Foskey wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 16:40, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > yeah I've always hated this aspect of those types of exams, (I've also > > never officially done any..), Sun exams seem to be similiar asking > > questions about an arcane switch on ls for example... where my thinking > > was being a good admin is knowing how to find the answers to problems > > rather than trying to learn a fixed set of answers if you see what I mean > > :-) > > > How often do you take time out to actually look at the options on ls? > > One of the benefits of the course (and cert) is that you actually take > time to look. For example the really cool but underused option `ls -F`. > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
