At 19:19:01 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, Tejas Guruswamy <masterpatricko@gmail.com> 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
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