On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:24:03 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >I would suggest that any new to Linux browse >http://fex.belwue.de/fstools/index.html just to gain perspective >of what can be done at the command line.
Hi, I strongly recommend against it, since this would teach wrong approaches. I'm not per se against such helpers, but they aren't good examples to learn using Linux command line. Have you taken a look at e.g. catz? It checks the file name extension instead of e.g. checking the magic number with "file" and then decides to chose cat or zcat. Or e.g. read the problem description of ax. It's simply incorrect that it's that complicated. There's no need to e.g. distinguish tar xvf ARCHIVE.tar and tar xvzf ARCHIVE.tar.gz simply use tar xfv for both tar xvf ARCHIVE.tar tar xvf ARCHIVE.tar.gz There are better sources to learn using the command line, than taking a look at examples that at least are bad for learning purpose. Especially recommending the "del" thingy... On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 13:42:47 +0100, Ulli Horlacher wrote: >> So I renamed it on the broken system (I figured that was a bit safer >> than just deleting it) > >See http://fex.belwue.de/fstools/del.html ...is a very bad advice, since renaming, using mv -i old_name new_name is the common approach in this context, when using command line. Regards, Ralf -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
