This problem has vexed me off and on for as long as I've used Linux.
I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to
it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive
not even plugged in I look at the folder where I mounted it, and there
are all the file
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to
it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not
even plugged in I look at the folder where I mounted it, and there are all
the files that I thought I wa
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 3:35 PM, Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> > I mount a removable drive at a folder in my root drive. I copy files to
> > it. I umount the drive and unplug it. Later, with the removable drive not
> > even plugged in I look at the folder
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021, Rich Shepard wrote:
Are you familiar with the PWD environment variable? At the shell prompt type
$ echo PWD
and the present working directory will be displayed.
From the "Yes, I'm old and cranky" Department: just use the pwd
utility and save yourself some typing.
[hei
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021, Paul Heinlein wrote:
[heinlein@omega ~]$ echo $PWD
/home/heinlein
[heinlein@omega ~]$ pwd
/home/heinlein
pwd is part of the GNU coreutils application suite, so it's probably
installed just about everywhere outside of appliance-y machines.
Paul,
How interesting. Saves 5