On Tue, 28 May 2002, Simon Naish wrote: > OK fair enough, but this is covered in the Mandrake Reference Manual, under the >chapter heading:- > Using The Command Line > Section:- > File Handling Utilities > Command:- > mv: Moving or Renaming Files. > > Maybe this information would have been more useful to a newbie than > just mv <file> <destination>
very true... you are 100% correct, and had you not pointed this out in this manner this new person would not have known "where" to find this information. :) all part of the Journey. heck! it was 3 months before I realized there even was a basic instruction manual on the system. Mark > > (or even go to the linux-mandrake site and click documentation, then select >your language (might really help!) and Reference Manual.) > > as the command doesn't really cover the important bit, where to find this stuff out >for yourself. As 'experts' - I dont include myself as an expert per se, but I have >played about with Linux for a while etc, and am a developer using Linux every day at >work, and prefer Mandrake at home to any other distro/OS. > > The point is this newbie has asked a good question. mv isnt immediately obvious, but >its not necessarily the best question to have asked. That would have been, 'where do >I discover how to use the command line interface in a nicely formated way?' As >experts this should be the first response. Not only are we who are on this list >purporting to be able to solve serious problems, but also point people in the right >direction to help themselves where appropriate. > > This isnt in any way an attempt to put peoples efforts down, I wouldnt be on the >list if I didnt rate it, I'm not on any others as this ones so useful :). However >much I appreciate the whole 'we're experts dont bother us with nonsense questions' >argument, I cant help feeling it doesnt help the community to flame newbies asking >what are, to them expert questions. Dont forget the comand line is no longer the way >new users and people generally perceive Linux, kde or gnome or fluxbox or whatever >is. Thus to Joe Bloggs the CLI is truly a daunting place, which only experts >understand. Makes sense to ask the experts when its put like that. > > Of course we should answer, but also educate, and help that education by doing more >than answering such a 'simple' question with a lowest common denominator answer. > > Peace. >
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