[FM Discuss] Book idea: useful command lines

[adam hyde]

i think this project, and Micks summation of the tourists guide to the
command line is cool...it might be interesting to send out emails asking
for peoples one-liners...there would be a tonne of interesting one
liners out there that i am sure people would like to contrib...formating
a good email and sending (where appropriate) to some lists might yield
interesting returns

shall we create an empty manual for this? if so, what do we call it?

adam



On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 13:02 -0700, dwp wrote:
> Hi Sylvain: Your idea is very good. I am quite troubled, and my mind  
> strained, by the encyclopedic approach to command lines.
> 
> I did an exercise a couple of weeks ago for my own edification to  
> learn about the not-well-explained subject of copying between a USB  
> drive plugged into the OLPC and another drive; in this case the SD  
> card under the OLPC. I used the "what you see and what you do" approach.
> 
> I got  the screen of the OLPC to display on my MAC by running the VNC  
> Server Activity on the OLPC and a VNC Viewer (in this case on a MAC  
> "Chicken of the VNC"). Both computers were on my router wirelessly.
> 
> As i entered commands in the OLPC Terminal Activity, the result would  
> appear on my Mac. It was a simple matter to use the Screen Capture  
> (CTRL-SHIFT-4) to select the entry and response to the command. I  
> copied (dragged) these over onto the Word Document in which i wrote  
> narrative.
> 
> I was also able to  show the concept of Path through directories  
> (which i still have trouble with, never worrying about these things on  
> a MAC:), by going through a sequence of ls -al commands, each one  
> adding another level down. Then i found I had to use the NANO editor  
> (which is included in the Terminal Activity) to view and edit a file  
> in one directory that i found.
> 
> Sorry I can't attach my example, but i am limited to 126KB in a  
> posting and it is 1.7MB . Happy to share this technique though. I  
> guess it could be applied to FLOSS manual writing using the XINHA  
> editor (or whatever is currently settled on). I'm not sure where to  
> appropriately put it in the FLOSS scheme of things. .
> 
> Regards: David
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