From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 28 00:03:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA04324 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:03:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paert.tse-online.de (paert.tse-online.de [194.97.69.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04319 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:03:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@paert.tse-online.de) Received: (qmail 31298 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Jan 1999 08:03:42 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:03:42 +0100 From: Andreas Braukmann To: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Back to school Message-ID: <19990128090342.B26208@paert.tse-online.de> References: <19990128162246.A4819@freebie.lemis.com> <19990128171124.48589@welearn.com.au> <19990128165745.B4819@freebie.lemis.com> <19990128174013.37143@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990128174013.37143@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:40:13PM +1100 Organization: TSE TeleService GmbH Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > > You should have one open if you're using the machine. > Not necessarily. Depends how it's set up and used. Definately necessarily. I'm in the unix world since 1989 and never, never found a X-Terminal or a X-Workstation not running one or two xterms (as a minimum). > > This is a more detailled level than that of the original. I had the same expression as Greg. The 'how-to-delete-a-file-with-explorer'-info-sheet (this word is quite as nice as the named tool) implied like Greg's commandline example, that the user knows where the file is located. > Quite so. And your 'rm file' was a different level again. If you want a > realistic comparison, the school example could be expressed at the > level that you used, by saying: > Click on the filename and press the Delete key. no. Because using the explorer you just _have_ to navigate the whole way down to the directory containing the file. I would just type [the sysadmin;) gave me a comfortable interactive shell]: paert:[~] rm ~projwwventanno ... and out of the sudden I just need to press return for deleting a file at a location I've only known rather vaguely beforehand. But to handle one file at a time is something for wheenies, ... the commandlines power strikes when it comes to a bunch of files. A few days ago one of our webdesigners (relatively new employess) came to me admitting that he just had named _all_ these graphic-files conflicting to our internal naming conventions. (ca. 100 files in 3 directories) He asked, if we just should go along with it for 'this project' or if he had really to rename all of them with the explorer. phhh. You should have seen his unbelieving face as a 'one-liner' at the zsh-prompt solved our problem. Regards, Andreas -- : TSE TeleService GmbH : Gsf: Arne Reuter : : : Hovestrasse 14 : Andreas Braukmann : We do it with : : D-48351 Everswinkel : HRB: 1430, AG WAF : FreeBSD/SMP : :--------------------------------------------------------------------: : PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key : : Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message