[Eug-lug] To Horst-Q/colours

[larry price]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:17:38 -0800, T. Joseph CARTER
<knghtbrd at bluecherry.net> wrote:
> They say Linux is free if your time has no value.  For the time invested,
> though, you learn about a set of tools that are largely the same ones that
> were developed 35 years ago for getting serious work done, and are still
> some of the most effective tools for that purpose.  The UNIX shell
> environment is at times a scary thing for new users, but once you get the
> hang of it and how easily you can do most anything you want with it, I
> think you'll be hard pressed to imagine anything else as worthwhile, even
> if it does seem simpler for the time being.

Keep at it, and you might find yourself doing things like this 

find /usr/blah/ -type l -exec ls -l {} \; | sed 's/^.* \([^ ].*\) ->
\(.*\)/ln -s \2 \/usr\/foo\/\1' > tmp; eval tmp; rm tmp

I actually used something like that earlier today, it made sense in context.


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