On 8/8/24 9:20 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I suggested that he relax and realize that the UNIX/Linux philosophy is really different from that of Windows. I mentioned redirection, pipes, and whatnot. Learn from a clean base, leave the Micro$oft baggage behind. That's what I was looking for, some document that gets to the root of things before teaching command strings by rote.
Indeed, I've been punished a lot...
Chuckling... Amen... Get the guy PuTTY so he has a reliable command line to log into his server with without the GUI. PuTTY can be configured to use public/private key auth, so he can configure it and fire it up without needing a password all the time. Another benefit is it can be configured to behave like an xterm so the Linux tutorials with middle-mouse paste can work the same from windows (in PuTTY). Give him midnight-commander (mc) and have him configure "lynx like motion" so he can use the arrow-keys to move around in the directory tree. The "Top 20" will cover most basic. Some omit 'file'. So I'd pass along when all else fails and you need to know what the hell a file is, 'file somefile' from the command line will point you in the right direction. And since this guy is coming from windows, dos2unix and unix2dos are important along with the rule "Linux doesn't know anything about UTF16-LE" so don't save anything from notepad and transfer it to his Linux box and expect anything but trouble. He's an engineer, he'll figure it out, there is just no shortcut for butt-in-chair time reading... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.