On #ubuntuforums....
<Petskull> my hat's off to you young man, you truly are a bigger geek than me...
<macogw> i'm a girl!
<Petskull> besides- com'on- you asked about *bash commands*... everyone knows those are guy secrets....
Meanwhile, on #linuxchix....
<kathryn> cd /usr/local/bin; ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox firefox
ls -l firefox
ls -lL firefox
<RumpledElf> ln is the symlink command
<purplewitch> I see
<Colourless> ln -s makes symlink
without the -s it will make a hardlink
<kathryn> RumpledElf, ln is the link command, -s says to make a symlink instead of a hard link
<RumpledElf> I was closer than cp :)
<purplewitch> hahaha
cp was lame I'll admit
:P
* RumpledElf is expecting purplewitch to go off and type man X for almost everything mentioned in these discussions
<purplewitch> hahahahahahahaha
* purplewitch blushes
<Colourless> the problem with man is unless you know what command to use, man is useless
* purplewitch blushes and turns green
<RumpledElf> see? :P
<kathryn> colourless: apropos
<maria> man -k is useful though ;)
<Meflin> if you dont know eactly what you want him to do what man isn't useless? :>
<Colourless> and sometimes nix commands don't have the most useful names... like using cat to view a text file
<purplewitch> wtf is man -k and why does it say apropos what?
<RumpledElf> frankly, 99% of the time google is more helpful than man
<maco> not necessaril!
y
<Colourless> fileserver ~ # man -k symlink
kernel.eselect [kernel] (5) - The kernel symlink management module for Gentoo's eselect
<kathryn> purplewitch, apropros is sort of a search for man pages
<Colourless> that wasn't helpful
<maco> *necesarily!
<Meflin> man -k word find those man pages matching word .. apropos is simaler but diferernt i think
<RumpledElf> maco: nah, you can google and hit the man pages in a web browser :)
<maco> man -k <searchterm> i think
oh darn
already soemone got it
<kathryn> RumpledElf, you are assuming the the commands have the same syntax on all OS's
<maco> RumpledElf: the not necessarily was at Colourless
<RumpledElf> oh, slow down with the typing, the lot of you :P
kathryn: they differ in the most subtle and annoying ways, don't they
<Meflin> fortunatly #linuxchix has more unix knowhow then you can shake a stick at
<Colourless> there is history behind nix commands, but that doesn't mean they have the best names for what they are most commonly used for. Sends newbies insane.