[colug-432] Looking for a Linux-based time-keeping application

[Scott Merrill]

First off: do you need to be doing this from the command line? The
graphical user interface in modern Linux distributions is very robust.
The graphical file browsers work very nicely, and you should have
little trouble using the graphical file browser of your distribution
if you have any experience with Windows Explorer.

This might be a good place to start if you want more information about
the Linux filesystem:
   http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net> wrote:
> No offense taken and you are quite correct. I just want some training
> wheels. I don't wear them long but
>
> ls /?
>
> brings up page after page after page of stuff and it'll take me an hour to
> figure out how to do
>
> dir /s -shra
>
> just to find one little file to get beyond the problem of the moment.
>
> For CD\ I'm frustrated because I'm in my home directory and
>
> cd ../../System/Settings
>
> doesn't take me to
>
> /System/Settings
>
> Instead I have to
>
> cd ..
> cd ..
> cd /System/Settings (or maybe it was cd System/Settings
>
> It's real basic syntax that needs to be releared but in the nonce I want to
> get schtuff done.........
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> I'm truly not trying to be a linux "snob" or whatever, but you're much
> better off imho learning the *NIX version of the commands.  You can put
> an alias file on your system, but you're going to end up teaching
> yourself for example, the command "dir" instead of ls, which will make it
> harder to actually learn the right commands....
>
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