Steve,<div><br></div><div>On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Steve VanSlyck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.vanslyck@spamcop.net">s.vanslyck@spamcop.net</a>></span> wrote:</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
No offense taken and you are quite correct. I just want some training<br>
wheels. I don't wear them long but<br>
<br>
ls /?<br>
<br>
brings up page after page after page of stuff and it'll take me an hour to<br>
figure out how to do<br>
<br>
dir /s -shra<br>
<br>
just to find one little file to get beyond the problem of the moment.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>ls -R</div><div><br></div><div>is the equivalent to dir /s -h Hidden files are ones that begin with a dot. There isn't really a one-for-one Windows-to-Linux concept of system files or the archive bit in linux file systems.<br>
<br></div><div>But there is a more powerful alternative. You said you just need to "find one little file". There is a find command that will do exactly what you want.</div><div><br></div><div>To find all files with a .doc extension from the current directory:</div>
<div><br></div><div>find . -name "*.doc"</div><div><br></div><div>To find all files with "work" or "Work" or "WORK" (etc) in the name (remember linux filesystems are case sensitive):</div>
<div><br></div><div>find . -iname "*work*"</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
For CD\ I'm frustrated because I'm in my home directory and<br>
<br>
cd ../../System/Settings<br>
<br>
doesn't take me to<br>
<br>
/System/Settings<br>
<br>
Instead I have to<br>
<br>
cd ..<br>
cd ..<br>
cd /System/Settings (or maybe it was cd System/Settings<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> On Linux "/" is like "C:". You definitely can do cd ../../System/Settings, exactly like Windows. If System/Settings is two parents back.</div>
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It's real basic syntax that needs to be releared but in the nonce I want to<br>
get schtuff done.........<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When I first moved from DOS/Windows to UNIX (HPUX then Solaris then Linux) I used an alias file to map dir to ls, etc. It did help. But as others said, its good to learn the native commands as they are much more powerful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here are some Linux/Dos cheatsheets you might find helpful:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/unix_for_dos_users.html">http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/unix_for_dos_users.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://rick.cogley.info/goodies/reference/linux-dos-command-equivalents.php">http://rick.cogley.info/goodies/reference/linux-dos-command-equivalents.php</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Eric</div><div><br></div></div></div>