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[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 19:19:01 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, Tejas Guruswamy 
<masterpatricko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15/05/10 16:12, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > The case of letters didn't play a part. I went to the directory with
> > the rpm, which contained only that single file, did "dir", and pasted
> > the name of the file into the command "rpm -Uvh <filename>". I always
> > do that when long filenames are involved, in order to prevent errors.
>
> You are intentionally using "dir"? That's meant for newbies trying to
> break msdos habits, it's just an alias for the real command, "ls". Try
> using that instead, it will be more flexible.

I know about ls. I know the difference between the two. "dir" is what 
comes to mind when it doesn't make any difference. I regret the 
discomfort if this discloses lack of rogor.

> But anyway what I really wanted to say is that there is no need to go
> through this filename copying process with TAB-completion in modern
> shells. If you don't know what this is,
> just type the first few letters of a filename, press TAB, and the rest
> of the filename appears, guaranteed to be in a format that the shell
> understands.

Different strokes for different folks.

> If you are finding yourself doing repetitive typing (or even
> copy-pasting) in a Linux shell, you're probably doing it wrong!

I'm sure you're right.

> Regards,
> Tejas

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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