On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:44:48AM +1130, Mike Andrew wrote: >On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 04:34, Bill Campbell wrote: >> It's a lot easier to copy all the text files in a directory to a >> floppy by typing ``cp *.txt /auto/floppy'' than it is to select them with a >> GUI, right-click copy, go find the floppy in another file manager, then > >It's a lot easier to make a typo, too.
Yabbut with command history, it's easy to fix it and rerun the command. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.'' -- Frederick Douglass. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
