You take such good care of me, Enrique!
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:04 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> Test to understand wildcard behaviour:
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ touch JUNK .JUNK
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ ls -1
> JUNK
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ ls -1a
> .
> ..
> JUNK
> .JUNK
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ ls -a *JUNK
> JUNK
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ ls -a .*JUNK
> .JUNK
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ rm *JUNK
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ ls -1a
> .
> ..
> .JUNK
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ rm .*JUNK
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$ ls -1a
> .
> ..
> kitepilot@twinbeech[/tmp/JUNK]**$
> As you can see above,
> *file
> is different than
> .*file
> and that's why your 'rm' didn't work.
> Which is lucky indeed, because if you don't understand wildcards you will
> sooner or later delete something that you didn't mean to.
> I'd suggest you to get in the habit of running a
> 'ls ${wildcard}'
> before a
> 'rm ${wildcard}'
> to avoid holes in your feet... :)
> ET
>
>
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> it doesn't like 'rm *lock* but only when I entered '.~lock*' instead of
>> the wildcard at the beginning.
>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:51 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
>> kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There are not 'invisible files'.
>>> There is a 'convention' that states that files named '.something' are not
>>> shown in a 'ls' listing it doesn't like 'rm *lock* unless some specific
>>> switches are used.
>>>
>>
>> The 'dot' at the beginning, however *IS* part of the name of the file.
>>
>>> Try a:
>>> find . -type f
>>> and you will find it every time.
>>> ET
>>>
>>> Michael Havens writes:
>>>
>>>> thanks... I figured it out. the lock file didn't delete when I
>>>> originally
>>>> rm it. Apparently it doesn't like 'rm *lock*' but it liked 'rm
>>>> .~lock*'. I
>>>> suppose it won't delete invisible files unless you explicitly tell it it
>>>> is
>>>> an invisible file.
>>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Stephen <cryptwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I would take a look at the rights and what user owns the file as a
>>>>> start.
>>>>> On Jul 1, 2012 1:28 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Okay I rsynced things between my two computers but before I did so I
>>>>>> forgot to close libre calc. Now The file that was open on one of the
>>>>>> computers will not open on the other. I deleted the SingletonLock
>>>>>> file
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> that didn't help any. I then tried deleting the file and then
>>>>>> restoring
>>>>>> from back up but when I try to save the file the computer says that
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> object is not accessable 'due to insufficient user rights'. What do I
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> to save the file. Also, when this happens again how do I open the file
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> will not open if deleting the SingletonLock file does not work?
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