From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pool-141-154-213-234.bos.east.verizon.net ([141.154.213.234] helo=localhost.localdomain ident=[GVE3ojtmmbKcO7C0n/MD6T+le7FNX3wU]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ALJZ-0006Ez-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 21:53:21 -0400 Received: (from dave@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4M1pYq19101; Tue, 21 May 2002 21:51:34 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: dave set sender to using -f From: "Dave Hunt <" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15594.63910.138111.97602@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:51:34 -0400 (EDT) To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: in defense of the command line In-Reply-To: <001b01c20131$dd83e8b0$af49e9d5@microsoft.com> References: <001b01c20131$dd83e8b0$af49e9d5@microsoft.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: dave.hunt2@verizon.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hello, For many of these commands, like "ls", you can do a "--help" option, to get usage instructions. Don't forget the ever-popular "man". If a command reported no errors, it succeeded. -Dave Octavian Rasnita writes: > Hi, thanks. Nice explanation. > I am not intimidate by the command lines. I am frightened by the idea of > breaking something. > Maybe I type rm fILE instead of rm File and I could delete another file. And > I don't know the undelete command. > The most used command by me is pwd, to be sure that I am in the right > directory, and ls, to see the files from there. > The other problem I have is that I don't remember very easy the parameters. > I usually remember the command name but I can't remember if I should use > the -L parameter or the -l parameter. > I've seen that for some commands, the same parameter make the same thing, > but for other commands that parameter make another thing. > If I remember well, it is the case of -R parameter, but I don't remember > exactly in what commands makes what. > In some commands, it means Recursive in the directory tree, but in other > commands, it means another thing. > > Another problem, and maybe here I can make something to improve, is that > after I give a command like sync, it doesn't tell me if the command was > successfully or not, and I don't know what to do. > I typed that command from another account than root, and it didn't tell me > anything. It didn't tell me if the command was successfully or not or if I > have the right to type that command from another account than root.