Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-27 Thread Jason White
Veli-Pekka Tatila writes: > Mario Lang wrote: > > No, Linux is for people who know what they are doing :-). Yes, exactly. > > > rm some file, I *want* it gone, immediately. > > Everything else would be highly anoying, Agreed. > Perhaps this is a matter of taste and or skill but I still don't

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: > > However, I believe you'd have to implement an "undelete" mechanism in > > the filesystem. yes that is indeed the case. The INodes need not to be overwritten for undo to work and the location needs still to be marke

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Mario Lang wrote: No, Linux is for people who know what they are doing :-). Hehe, see what you mean . Yeah, and where do you get the diskspace from? Well, I've got only 10 GB on this Linux box but provided that I'll install Debian on the other machines at some point, they have loads more. Disk spa

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: However, I believe you'd have to implement an "undelete" mechanism in the filesystem. I thought so, too. THe lack of such an undo mechanism isn't that bad, these are just ideas that I think would be cool, and that might be possible in Linux. I'll consider scripting a

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Mario Lang wrote: > > Does Linux have some kind of an undelete command, and might it be > > called urm for consistency? > > No, Linux is for people who know what they are doing :-). infact yes, there are 2 demian packages that claim to undelete fiels but only on ext2fs one

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Mario Lang
"Veli-Pekka Tatila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: >> check twic before typing a "risky" command anyway). > People say you don't know what you've lost until you lose it. It > didn't bother me in the DOS days but nowadays I feel like this about > the lack of the Recycle

Re: Shells and Syntax Again (Was: X Accessibility)

2004-08-25 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: I would advise you to get used to the unix shell syntax. Being less verbose, it is much more expressive (single-letter free-floating modifiers Well, it is easy for you to say . Coming from a DOS background, I have no trouble with single letter switches or even the Un