Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-19 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:37:44PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Thanks. That is really interesting - I love linguistics and etymology. But > this is an English language list. ;-) > > Lisi Well, when you pop an 'outlandish' bottle, the outcoming (imp) might not comply with 'inlandish' rules.. ;-)

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-18 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 17.07.2013 um 06:24 schrieb Doug: Doggpne! Just when I begin to think my German is not bad, something like this comes along! (It's not the first time. Quite some years ago I was sent to Germany on business, to Stuttgart. Schwäbisch, Suabian Listening to the people in that area speak

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 17 July 2013 16:12:58 Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:18:33AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 03:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > PPS: "Guten Tag miteinander!" or "Hallo miteinander!" or "Hallo > > > zusammen!" > > > > > > Resp. "Moin" is indepe

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-17 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:18:33AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 03:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > PPS: "Guten Tag miteinander!" or "Hallo miteinander!" or "Hallo zusammen!" > > > > Resp. "Moin" is independent of the daytime, so it's the German "Hallo", > > Aaaarghhh, my b

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:24:46 +0200, Doug wrote: Doggpne! Just when I begin to think my German is not bad, something like this comes along! (It's not the first time. Quite some years ago I was sent to Germany on business, to Stuttgart. Listening to the people in that area speak among themselves,

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-16 Thread Doug
On 07/16/2013 09:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 02:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 23:36 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Thursday 11 July 2013 06:12:35 Wilko Fokken wrote: Moin mitnanner, >>> >>> Could some kind person please translate this for me? >>

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 03:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PPS: "Guten Tag miteinander!" or "Hallo miteinander!" or "Hallo zusammen!" > > Resp. "Moin" is independent of the daytime, so it's the German "Hallo", Aaaarghhh, my broken English sucks. Not "Hallo" is misinterpreted, but "Moin". > someti

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PPS: "Guten Tag miteinander!" or "Hallo miteinander!" or "Hallo zusammen!" Resp. "Moin" is independent of the daytime, so it's the German "Hallo", sometimes misinterpreted for "Guten Morgen" (Good morning!) only, but it's for "Guten Tag" (Good day!) and "Guten Abend!" (Good evening!) etc. too. -

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 02:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 23:36 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 11 July 2013 06:12:35 Wilko Fokken wrote: > > > Moin mitnanner, > > > > Could some kind person please translate this for me? > > (although it looks German to me) > > It is

OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 23:36 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2013 06:12:35 Wilko Fokken wrote: > > Moin mitnanner, > > Could some kind person please translate this for me? > (although it looks German to me) It is German. "Moin" is for "Hello". "mitnanner" is for "everyone", from t

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 11 July 2013 06:12:35 Wilko Fokken wrote: > Moin mitnanner, Could some kind person please translate this for me? I have Googled for a translation, but apart from a suggestion that it was probably Finnish (although it looks German to me), I am none the wiser. I tried Wiktionary, bu

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:05:51PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 09:55:20 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > > append command:"cd"to .profile > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > >

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:05:51PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 09:55:20 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > > append command:"cd"to .profile > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > >

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 09:55:20 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > append command:"cd"to .profile > > > > > > > > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > > == > > > > exam

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:55:20AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 11 iul 13, 07:12:35, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > > > The following lines explain, what should be done in order to get the dot > > files out of the way into a subdirectory. > > You included lots of unrelated customizations, see b

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 11 iul 13, 07:12:35, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > The following lines explain, what should be done in order to get the dot > files out of the way into a subdirectory. You included lots of unrelated customizations, see below. > The dot files of root go into subdir "/root/" Err, aren't they al

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-10 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 04:55:55PM +0200, ha wrote: > Thanks Ralph, I guess it would do it. > But I didn't plan to separate the conf files completely, I was hoping > for a solution more alike Wilko's (if it works). > After all we all have .config file in our home directory. > It makes sense that