[ShadowAce]

[reg45]

Since macOS is a Unix derivative, many of these tricks will also work in macOS.

[adorno]

Why Bother?

Why is this even here?

Shouldn't this be in a tutorial website instead?

[Varmint Al]

Thanks for the post. This is good information. I use Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1 Tessa and it is always good to learn some new feature.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[Redleg Duke]

Bump for future reference

[AppyPappy]

cp -p gets used a lot as does

sh script.sh

and

if [ -f file ] then

in a script

[CodeToad]

Nothing posted is better than a GUI. You might as well claim the steering wheel in cars is a dumb idea.

The claim that clicking a mouse is less useful or is terrible compared to clicking the keyboard is just plain retarded.

[Mmmike]

I like it that he is coy about the identity of the legacy operating system that uses drive letters in organizing the filesystem.

[Paleo Pete]

Interesting stuff.

I had a fold out list of Linux commands a while back, but not sure where it is now, never used it much. Probably still in an old laptop case. Plenty can be done with command line, but I mostly used the GUI with Linux, I wanted to see if it was “ready for prime time” if I used it just like the average idiot who can barely turn a computer on. So that’s the way I used it, exactly the opposite of the way I approached Windows.

I built and repaired Windows computers for a living for around 15 years, used the DOS OS plenty, so I’m fairly familiar with the difference between GUI and command line, just never used it with Linux, I wanted to dive in and use it just like anyone would a Windows machine.

At that time, running Mandrake 9, it wasn’t quite ready yet, but close. Everything worked well, but it took a bit of a learning curve. I’ve also used Knoppix, Ubuntu, Damn Small Linux, Feather, Puppy, and now running Slacko 6.3.2 (puppy version) on another laptop, a live CD version that works well, I’ve browsed FR and posted a few times with it.

My first full install, Mandrake 8, was pretty hairy, but after that it wasn’t bad at all. The few times I’ve had a reason to use the command line it worked quite well, like installing a nVidia driver on the Mandrake 9 machine. Some of the commands are similar to DOS, if I remember correctly most are different. Both work very close to the same though, if you know what command you need.

I originally learned by working on older pure DOS machines, the old 4.77 mhz XT and 286 machines, a 10 MB hard drive was the max you could get, in some cases 5 1/4” floppy only. The average calculator today puts it to shame...but it was fun, still hard to beat some of the really old DOS games. I think I still actually have DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 on an old 266mhz laptop and a few games on it. Also still have Linux CDs that will run quite well on that range computer, many will run on older hardware. Mandrake 9 would run great on a machine that would just barely run XP at all, both released about the same time. That was my favorite thing about Linux, I could still use a P-III 500 that would be so sluggish running XP I wouldn’t even install it at all.

I’ll have to bookmark this one for future reference...

[daniel1212]

Is there going to be a test later? I will bookmark it however. I am getting so as sometimes I cannot remember a password from a day ago.

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks for posting; I’m bookmarking it.