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[scottalanmiller]

less is basically read only vi

[coliver]

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

less is basically read only vi

I can buy that. You do have a way to do less interactively if I recall.

[wirestyle22]

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

[scottalanmiller]

@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

less is basically read only vi

I can buy that. You do have a way to do less interactively if I recall.

It's always interactive.

[wirestyle22]

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@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

I actually never used either. I just opened everything up in a text editor and didn't edit it but that is a dangerous way to do it.

less is really powerful. A good command to learn.

Yeah I'm reading all about it and I have a test VM open to go through each command

[travisdh1]

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Was the less command actually giving more options than more a joke on the part of the creators? lol

less is more

Well, it is newer. I need to get into the habit of using less instead of more still myself.

You have it backwards. Less is the new one that replaced more. It's getting out of the habit of using more that us old timers need to do. We only had more when I started.

Yeah, I was horribly imprecise again. I did mean that less is the new one.

[scottalanmiller]

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

Just caught that huh?

[wirestyle22]

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

Just caught that huh?

Well I was thinking about it and thought it might be a joke if you see my post above but it was just confirmed now. I never knew less or more were commands before yesterday

[travisdh1]

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

Just caught that huh?

Well I was thinking about it and thought it might be a joke if you see my post above but it was just confirmed now. I never knew less or more were commands before yesterday

In school, the profs all said that the initial commands for UNIX were thought up by a bunch of drunk college people.

[wirestyle22]

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So the history that this command line book gives you is really interesting and I just read a blip that said it is in fact a play on less is more. That's pretty funny.

Just caught that huh?

Well I was thinking about it and thought it might be a joke if you see my post above but it was just confirmed now. I never knew less or more were commands before yesterday

In school, the profs all said that the initial commands for UNIX were thought up by a bunch of drunk college people.

more its extremely limited. You can't even scroll back.

EDIT: To be completely accurate you can scroll all over a page but you can't PAGE back.

[wirestyle22]

The more I read the more sense Linux makes and the less sense Windows makes. Symbolic links are fantastic.

[travisdh1]

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The more I read the more sense Linux makes and the less sense Windows makes. Symbolic links are fantastic.

Welcome to the other side!

[dafyre]

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The more I read the more sense Linux makes and the less sense Windows makes. Symbolic links are fantastic.

Welcome to the other side!

We have cookies!

[wirestyle22]

So in regards to Wildcards, I see as an example they have Data??? which would be a file beginning with Data followed by exactly three characters. Does that mean we can do Data???? so on and so forth until we hit the character limit?

[travisdh1]

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So in regards to Wildcards, I see as an example they have Data??? which would be a file beginning with Data followed by exactly three characters. Does that mean we can do Data???? so on and so forth until we hit the character limit?

If you don't know the number of characters, use *, so Data*

[wirestyle22]

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So in regards to Wildcards, I see as an example they have Data??? which would be a file beginning with Data followed by exactly three characters. Does that mean we can do Data???? so on and so forth until we hit the character limit?

If you don't know the number of characters, use *, so Data*

Yeah I'm just wondering how far that can go. Seems like a weird way to do it. I'm wondering the use case. I bet it's very limited.

[travisdh1]

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So in regards to Wildcards, I see as an example they have Data??? which would be a file beginning with Data followed by exactly three characters. Does that mean we can do Data???? so on and so forth until we hit the character limit?

Once you get deeper into regular expressions, you'll find that syntax changes between commands. Gets really annoying.

[wirestyle22]

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So in regards to Wildcards, I see as an example they have Data??? which would be a file beginning with Data followed by exactly three characters. Does that mean we can do Data???? so on and so forth until we hit the character limit?

Once you get deeper into regular expressions, you'll find that syntax changes between commands. Gets really annoying.

[travisdh1]

@scottalanmiller interview in Dilbert?

[wirestyle22]

So the numbers 2 and 4 correspond to the number of hard links to the file. Is it more common to see hard links created than a symbolic link, even though symbolic links are more modern/capable of more? Just based on reading alone it seems weird that ln automatically assumes you want to create a hard link and you have to specify the -s modifier for a symbolic link. It feels like it should be the opposite: ln -h