Re: Re: is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of Linux?:-D

2021-05-27 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, Thank you, David, for all the information. Scanning all these DOT files and checking what sort of documentation user/admin can easily get for them are steps in my process. I already started checking about the .SEQ file you cited for instance. Debian Code Search is very helpful. On the other

Re: is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of Linux?:-D

2021-05-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 May 2021 at 20:30:03 (+0200), Patrice Duroux wrote: > > 2. After this I was curious about the overall content of all the packages > on any dot files (including directories). For that I used the following to > 2 commands: > # the packages concerned > apt-file --fil

Re: is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of Linux?:-D

2021-05-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
; May be user would be able to select their targets. > > 2. After this I was curious about the overall content of all the packages > on any dot files (including directories). For that I used the following to > 2 commands: > # the packages concerned > apt-file --filter-origins Debian

is the number of dot files a measure of the darkness of Linux?:-D

2021-05-16 Thread Patrice Duroux
Search, (also Debian Wiki?) that would provide at least links if topics are found in each of them. May be user would be able to select their targets. 2. After this I was curious about the overall content of all the packages on any dot files (including directories). For that I used the following

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 August 2018 12:46:30 cyaiplexys wrote: > On 08/16/2018 11:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:19:29AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: > >> I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not > >> include all the dot files.

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/16/2018 11:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:19:29AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not include all the dot files. It would be too much to go into each account and run a script. I would like to do it from one

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 04:37:47PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > $ find /home/me/dirToARchive -print -depth | grep -v -x -f > paths-to-exclude.txt | cpio -o -H ustar | gz > archive.tar.gz > > cpio takes a list of filenames to archive on stdin, so we use find to list > what we want, then filter that

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:40:14AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: I'm trying to make a gzipped tarball. I want to exclude only a certain list of dot files but NOT ALL dot files (in other words tar the other dot files not on the list). I have (this is just an example): tar -czf archive.tgz /ho

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
On 08/16/2018 11:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:19:29AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not include all the dot files. It would be too much to go into each account and run a script. I would like to do it from one

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:19:29AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: > I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not include all > the dot files. It would be too much to go into each account and run a > script. I would like to do it from one account. Then do it from /home.

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
collision between the auto-stripping of the leading slashes, and your --exclude patterns which still have those leading slashes on them. I actually have several accounts which I want to back up but not include all the dot files. It would be too much to go into each account and run a script. I wou

Re: How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:40:14AM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote: > tar -czf archive.tgz /home/me/dirToARchive/. > --exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.mysetuptemp > --exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.myotherdotfile > --exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.anotherdotfile > > I found it doesn't matter if I put the -

How to exclude Some but not All dot files?

2018-08-16 Thread cyaiplexys
I'm trying to make a gzipped tarball. I want to exclude only a certain list of dot files but NOT ALL dot files (in other words tar the other dot files not on the list). I have (this is just an example): tar -czf archive.tgz /home/me/dirToARchive/. --exclude=/home/me/dirToARchive/.mysetu

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 un

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/&q

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

2013-07-10 Thread Wilko Fokken
ne cares to do the > same with the conf files *for users*. > ...or is it just me? > Moin mitnanner, (To ha: My dot files aint collected into one file, but into one subdir) (Sorry that this post got a bit lenghty, but the bulk of it is comments and explanations.) The following lines e

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 22:13 -0400, david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > i would expect > > $ HOME=/mnt/music gedit > > to do what you want. And you are right :). Thank you! $ echo $HOME /home/rocketmouse $ HOME=/mnt/music gedit $ echo $HOME /home/rocketmouse $ ls -hAl /mnt/music/ | grep

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread davidson
hi ralf. On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 04:44 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: You could probably do: su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app Hi Shawn, that's great, thank you very much! I can add this to my next audio session scripts, so no searching for hidden configs an

Re: Dot files, I did get them out of the way

2013-07-09 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). Moin mitnanner, my solutions via shellscripts work pretty well since about ten

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread ha
On 07/09/2013 03:53 PM, ha wrote: On 07/09/2013 12:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app ... [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/ gedit Am I reading this correctly? Shouldn't it be: su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/gedit gedit No. This doesn't make sense

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread ha
On 07/09/2013 12:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app ... [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/ gedit Am I reading this correctly? Shouldn't it be: su -l $USER HOME=/mnt/music/gedit gedit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 04:44 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > You could probably do: > su -l $USER HOME=$HOME/$app $app Hi Shawn, that's great, thank you very much! I can add this to my next audio session scripts, so no searching for hidden configs anymore, for apps that don't allow to set a path by t

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-09 Thread shawn wilson
> > its been unmaintained for years now. Someone forked it, though, and > > people on the Arch forums seem to have it working: > > > > https://github.com/sloonz/rewritefs > > > > I've never used it before. > > Interesting, when I make music I wo

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
thub.com/sloonz/rewritefs > > I've never used it before. Interesting, when I make music I would like to have the dot files that usually should be in /home, in a music production directory, because the configurations do change for different audio productions and I want to be able to resto

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Matthew Moore
On 2013-07-08, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:55 AM, 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 hom

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:55 AM, 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 all applica

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread ha
13 03:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 14:44 +0200, ha wrote: Would you care to explain how to accomplish that setup? It would be nice to have only one file that contains configuration (like etc/, let's say .conf/) and not to have to search trough two dozens of dot files eve

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
and not to have to search trough two dozens of > > dot files every time I click on the "Browse" button in whatever > > application - just to find documents/ work/ or data/ directory... > > An example for a user that doesn't have the home in /home: > > [rocketm

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 14:44 +0200, ha wrote: > Would you care to explain how to accomplish that setup? > It would be nice to have only one file that contains configuration (like > etc/, let's say .conf/) and not to have to search trough two dozens of > dot files every time I cli

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread ha
Would you care to explain how to accomplish that setup? It would be nice to have only one file that contains configuration (like etc/, let's say .conf/) and not to have to search trough two dozens of dot files every time I click on the "Browse" button in whatever application

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:42:55 +0200 Wilko Fokken wrote: Hello Wilko, >As a (private) text prone Debian user, I like having my dot files >out of the way and not stumbling between my working files. What dot files? Ones you've created, or those that are generated by apps you use? If

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 12:57 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > So, leave them in $HOME, and create directories such as $HOME/work; > $HOME/documents Or even keep the hidden files in $HOME but instead of adding $HOME/work, HOME/documents, add /home/work, /home/documents or /mnt/work etc.. FWIW I've

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/07/13 11:42, Wilko Fokken wrote: > Moin mitnanner, > > As a (private) text prone Debian user, I like having my dot files > out of the way and not stumbling between my working files. > > On the other hand, I dislike hiding them by file managers, > because I want to d

Re: Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread staticsafe
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:42:55PM +0200, Wilko Fokken wrote: > Moin mitnanner, > > As a (private) text prone Debian user, I like having my dot files > out of the way and not stumbling between my working files. > > On the other hand, I dislike hiding them by file managers, &

Dot files, get them out of the way

2013-07-08 Thread Wilko Fokken
Moin mitnanner, As a (private) text prone Debian user, I like having my dot files out of the way and not stumbling between my working files. On the other hand, I dislike hiding them by file managers, because I want to discover them early at possibly wrong places. So, by fumbling and messing

Re: Multiboot partitioning to share data, not dot files

2010-02-21 Thread Klaus Pieper
With LVM you could put anything on logical partitions which can be created/increased/decreased/dropped as necessary. You need a small separate boot partition, which can be shared between both systems. You might want to create a swap partition, which also is shared, maybe a separate partiti

Multiboot partitioning to share data, not dot files

2010-02-21 Thread postid
ormal data files will be in the data (or "documents") partition, the /home directories will exist on their own partitions just to keep the dot files there. This way, I think that the two Lennys can share data, but not have problems with conflicting configuration files. It will also ea

Re: Redirection of .dot files during NFS/NIS login from GNOME desktop

2005-08-19 Thread James Strandboge
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 13:35 -0400, Craig M. Houck wrote: > We are using NIS/NFS to allow uses to login to a Debian desktop machine > that connects them to there Sun Solaris work space. We would like to direct > the many .dot files that are written to be directed to a sub-directory to &

Redirection of .dot files during NFS/NIS login from GNOME desktop

2005-08-19 Thread Craig M. Houck
We are using NIS/NFS to allow uses to login to a Debian desktop machine that connects them to there Sun Solaris work space. We would like to direct the many .dot files that are written to be directed to a sub-directory to stop any interferance with pre-existing/duplicated files that are created

Can't load user dot files in open office (/usr/bin/oowriter)

2004-05-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All System on unstable here; Gnome; openoffice.org1.1.1; I can't load dot files in Open Office: In /usr/bin/oowriter I click 'File' --> Open. The GUI that's then presented to me let's me access the files in my ~/HOME directory, except the dot files being in th

Re: [OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alan Shutko wrote: > Tim writes: > > I'm using ftp or lftp, and find a file called (eg) .nfs80301. > > Some process has an open handle to the file over NFS. > > When you have a program with a file open over NFS, but delete the > file (over nfs) the file is renamed as you see it. When the process

[OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp

2003-08-14 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I can't find the command to delete a file on the remote server. My ultimate goal is to delete the directory it is contained in. I'm using ftp or lftp, and find a file called (eg) .nfs80301. rmdir -f and rm -f both fail. If I delete the offending

Re: [OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp [SOLVED]

2003-08-14 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:09:07AM +0100, Tim wrote: | | | rmdir -f and rm -f both fail. If I delete the offending file, a new one | | takes its place, named (eg) .nfs90301. | | | | Any suggestions? | | Find out what is c

Re: [OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp

2003-08-14 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Proulx wrote: | Even though you cannot remove the file it is possible to move the file | around. You can 'mv .nfs* ../' for example to get the files up a | level. That empties the directory and would allow you to remove a | directory for example.

Re: [OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp

2003-08-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:09:07AM +0100, Tim wrote: | rmdir -f and rm -f both fail. If I delete the offending file, a new one | takes its place, named (eg) .nfs90301. | | Any suggestions? Find out what is creating the file, and solve the real issue. I know it is related to NFS and locking or

Re: [OT] deleting dot files on remote server with ftp

2003-08-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using ftp or lftp, and find a file called (eg) .nfs80301. Some process has an open handle to the file over NFS. When you have a program with a file open over NFS, but delete the file (over nfs) the file is renamed as you see it. When the process closes, the

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
> >ls -Ald ~/.??* | grep '^-' | sed 's/^\([^ ]*[ ]*\)\{8,8\}\([^ ]*\)/\2/' > > ls -Ald ~/.[^.]* | grep '^-' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f9 > It is not that much shorter, but it sure is prettier at least to my eyes. :) Or if we are just trying to have fun with one line scripting... for i in $(echo

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
> >To ignore . and .., use -A (almost all). I also figured that > >directories weren't needed, so grepped for regular files. Then used sed > >to print only the 9th word. > > > >ls -Ald ~/.??* | grep '^-' | sed 's/^\([^ ]*[ ]*\)\{8,8\}\([^ ]*\)/\2/' > > ls -Ald ~/.[^.]* | grep '^-' | tr -s ' ' |

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: | > | hello all- | > | I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another | > | directory. how can i select onl

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Travis Crump
Gary Turner wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:23:44 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: | hello all- | I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can | i select only these files and not the standard file

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:23:44 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: >| hello all- >| I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can >| i select only these files and not the standard files. >| >| ls .* doesn

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
> > > ls -ad ~/.[^.]* This is one of the FAQs in fileutils. Check it out! http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/#ls%20-a%20*%20does%20not%20list%20dot%20files Bob pgpTmwImw1vEO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: > | hello all- > | I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can > | i select only these files and not the standard files. > | > | ls .* doesn't seem t

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Steve Juranich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020628 10:49]: > > ls -ad ~/.[^.]* > > I prefer: > > ls -ad ~/.??* > > > Many less keystrokes, but to each his own. ... but not quite the same effect. This shell glob won't catch a file called, say .g -- it requires 2 characters after the '.' . That's prob

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jun 2002, Steve Juranich wrote: > > ls -ad ~/.[^.]* > > I prefer: > > ls -ad ~/.??* > > > Many less keystrokes, but to each his own. > Midnight Commander is good for this sort of thing. AC -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For electronic books on the

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Steve Juranich
> ls -ad ~/.[^.]* I prefer: ls -ad ~/.??* Many less keystrokes, but to each his own. -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sj

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: | hello all- | I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can | i select only these files and not the standard files. | | ls .* doesn't seem to work. It does (but without "-a" you won't see them), but it

Re: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread David Z Maze
"Henning, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can > i select only these files and not the standard files. > > ls .* doesn't seem to work. Really? It does for me (or at least 'ls -d .*'). 'ls -a' will list all files, even if

RE: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jun-2002 Henning, Brian wrote: > hello all- > I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can > i select only these files and not the standard files. > > ls .* doesn't seem to work. > try: find . -name ".*" -print and go from there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Henning, Brian
hello all- I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can i select only these files and not the standard files. ls .* doesn't seem to work. thanks, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

1998-10-31 Thread Rick Macdonald
Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > Hi, > > It's a little bit off-topic. > > We have a set of Debian computers, which are not quite the same. It would be > useful to synchronize certain files on all nodes like /etc/profile or > /etc/X11/Xresources, or /etc/menu and so on. But of course not all t

Re: OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

1998-10-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
course not all the files. > > Reflection of this problem is synchronization of user's .dot-files on > different nodes. Are the machines networked? If so, why would user have different startup files on different nodes? Don't you have each user's home directory availab

Re: OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

1998-10-30 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
nodes like /etc/profile or > /etc/X11/Xresources, or /etc/menu and so on. But of course not all the files. > > Reflection of this problem is synchronization of user's .dot-files on > different nodes. > > Would CVS be an appropriate tool for that purpose? Or is there better one > tool? > > Thanks, > Sasha. >

OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

1998-10-29 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
em is synchronization of user's .dot-files on different nodes. Would CVS be an appropriate tool for that purpose? Or is there better one tool? Thanks, Sasha.

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Shaleh
If you must get gimp to show a dotfile (or directory) just type '.' in the file blank and hit 'tab'. GIMP (and all GTK apps) work like bash does. Tab gives file completion. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: > What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? .directories > As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books. Any "Teach yourself > UNIX" type book will work. Linux is fairly standardized. Also, Debian > is working on some new user docs. Might want to subscribe to

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? > I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it, but > all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles. > > > I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for > > dummies please. > I

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Will Lowe
> What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? The gtk file selection dialogs don't show _any_ file or directory that starts with a dot, in any gtk-enabled app. Will -- |

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Shaleh
What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing? As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books. Any "Teach yourself UNIX" type book will work. Linux is fairly standardized. Also, Debian is working on some new user docs. Might want to subscribe to debian-docs and see what they have to say. The /usr/doc/H

Re: dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Will Lowe
> How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it, but all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles. > I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for > dummies please. If you're not a unix person, try "Running Linux" by M

dot files

1998-07-24 Thread Richard L. Alhama
How can I make GIMP show dotfiles? Thanks. P.S. I should get a book can someone recommend a good one? Not linux for dummies please. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /=