* lejon pokes jrib | 01:01 | |
jrib | hi | 01:01 |
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lejon | Hi there | 01:02 |
lejon | jrib, could you here explain a little more about how ln works? I was going to try to make a symlink to trash so I dont have to go through /.local/share/trash/ to empty it | 01:04 |
jrib | sure | 01:05 |
jrib | ln -s TARGET NAME | 01:05 |
jrib | TARGET is the path relative to where the symlink is created | 01:05 |
jrib | and NAME is what the path to the symlink itself is | 01:05 |
lejon | so for that trash bin to be located in /home/lejon/trash I would have to write ln -s /.local/share/trash /home/lejon/trash? | 01:06 |
jrib | so to create ~/trash pointing to ~/.local/share/Trash/, you could do: ln -s .local/share/Trash ~/trash | 01:06 |
lejon | ah yeah thats right ~corresponds to home directory | 01:07 |
lejon | so I could create a symlink and use it as a part of a script too? almost like a pointer in programming? | 01:08 |
jrib | lejon: sure kind of | 01:10 |
lejon | jrib cool, seems like they are really useful, they work like shortcuts in windows but without the limitation of it having to be a folder or a executable? | 01:11 |
jrib | lejon: right, you can point to any file, including files on other partitions | 01:13 |
lejon | wow, thats useful | 01:13 |
lejon | on another subject, I know of the alias command and how to use it, but those aliases, where are they put and how do I make sure they still exist after I shutdown? Because it has happened that I make a couple of aliases but they dont work when ive rebooted | 01:14 |
* lejon pokes jrib | 01:15 | |
jrib | lejon: you need to add them to your ~/.bashrc | 01:15 |
jrib | lejon: you'll see a note in the comments there about creating a ~/.bash_aliases if you want to be more organized | 01:16 |
lejon | jrib what does that file do? because I read a guide and the author kept em in a .bash_aliases file, but that might have just been a symlink? | 01:16 |
jrib | !rute | 01:16 |
ubottu | documentation is to be found at http://help.ubuntu.com and http://wiki.ubuntu.com - General linux documentation: http://www.tldp.org - http://rute.2038bug.com | 01:16 |
jrib | http://rute.2038bug.com <- this is an excellent read if you want to understand these kind of things. I wish someone had given me this link when I started | 01:17 |
lejon | jrib Ah I see, ill try that sometime, I think its maybe time for me to go to bed soon, its kindof late | 01:17 |
jrib | lejon: everytime a new bash shell starts it executes the commands in ~/.bashrc | 01:17 |
lejon | ah thanks ^^ I really appreciate ur help mate, sorry for my rudeness before | 01:17 |
jrib | "rc" mans "run commands" | 01:17 |
jrib | s/mans/means | 01:17 |
lejon | ah! | 01:18 |
lejon | jrib, you've given me alot of help now, I will try and experiment with this but now I gotta go to bed :P | 01:19 |
jrib | lejon: good night | 01:20 |
lejon | jrib I might cya later or something | 01:20 |
lejon | Good night sir | 01:20 |
lejon | jrib, are you there? | 14:19 |
lejon | jrib, think you could try to explain how to make a .bash_aliases file? I have to uncomment that check in .bashrc first and then create a file called .bash_aliases in my home directory? | 14:52 |
jrib | lejon: hey | 14:52 |
jrib | lejon: exactly | 14:52 |
lejon | jrib and then in that file I define aliases by writting "alias ls=ls -a" and then save? | 14:53 |
jrib | should be like: | 14:54 |
jrib | alias ls='ls -a' | 14:54 |
lejon | within single qoutes, does it have to be? | 14:55 |
jrib | the spaces need to be escaped somehow I believe. '' is one way | 14:55 |
lejon | or \ right? | 14:56 |
jrib | try | 14:57 |
lejon | jrib Will do, gotta go and throw some trash first ^^ I have also setup a VM and gonna download the x86 iso for xubuntu and start laborating | 14:57 |
jrib | have fun | 14:58 |
lejon | ^^ Thanks for all the help so far mate, you realize that I am going to poke you alot probably? :P | 14:58 |
jrib | sure, if I'm around, I don't mind | 14:58 |
lejon | Cool, its people like you that lift up communities to what they are, keep the good work up mate *thumbs up* | 14:59 |
lejon | jrib, you s till here? | 16:15 |
jrib | lejon: somewhat | 16:15 |
lejon | jrib okay :P well I uncommented the check in .bashrc and made .bash_aliases and I have defined a few aliases with "alias blargh='ls\ -a'" but when I type the alias, it says command not found | 16:16 |
lejon | something more I have to do? | 16:17 |
jrib | two things | 16:19 |
jrib | you should just do: alias blargh='ls -a' | 16:20 |
jrib | you should start a new terminal after doing that and check if it works | 16:20 |
lejon | not escape the spaces? | 16:20 |
lejon | well Ill try that then and see if it works | 16:21 |
jrib | lejon: if you use '', then you don't escape the spaces | 16:21 |
lejon | ur right, how stupid I am... that is like the basics of programming, gah! :P | 16:22 |
lejon | the '' indicates it whole as one string right, so therefor the space is already "there" in the string | 16:22 |
lejon | it worked now, thanks for teaching me that :P | 16:23 |
jrib | np | 16:26 |
lejon | also jrib, you know where the compiz config file is somewhere? I get a weird error about a invalid path that I should remove, but I dunno the name nor location of compiz config | 16:26 |
jrib | lejon: nope, try #compiz-fusion | 16:26 |
lejon | jrib, will do | 16:27 |
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