Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it
> all of which is good information. > > but, does answer question of his "cp" making links and why > i suggested he run "alias" to see what he has for aliases. ;-) > > Hi, thanks for your answers .. Now I have a clearer idea of the problem that, however, I have to better inves

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread g
On 07/04/14 02:40, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/04/2014 12:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: <<>> all of which is good information. but, does answer question of his "cp" making links and why i suggested he run "alias" to see what he has for aliases. ;-) nap time on this side of the 'big pond'. later. --

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/04/2014 12:35 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: I don't rely on colors Neither do I, because I've found it to be almost impossible to find out exactly what each color means. One of the first things I add to ~/.bashrc is this line: alias ls=ls I put this down at the bottom to override any "h

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/04/14 14:04, angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it wrote: > I apologize for a trivial question but that's because I yet have not much > experience with Linux. > > I made, some time ago, a copy of the smb.conf file, for security reasons, > before making to it any changes: > (cp smb.conf.original

Re: changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-03 Thread g
On 07/04/14 01:04, angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it wrote: <> The command "ls -l" shows the two files are colored blue which (I think) indicates that the files are a link to each other. this is true. Since I am convinced that I used the "cp" command; my question is: which mistake can I hav

changes made to a file are also made in his copy

2014-07-03 Thread angelo.moresch...@medident-sw.it
Hi, I apologize for a trivial question but that's because I yet have not much experience with Linux. I made, some time ago, a copy of the smb.conf file, for security reasons, before making to it any changes: (cp smb.conf.original smb.conf.original.orig ) Yesterday I wanted to give a look at