| [01:01] * lejon pokes jrib | |
| [01:01] <jrib> hi | |
| [01:02] <lejon> Hi there | |
| [01:04] <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 | |
| [01:05] <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 | |
| [01:06] <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 | |
| [01:07] <lejon> ah yeah thats right ~corresponds to home directory | |
| [01:08] <lejon> so I could create a symlink and use it as a part of a script too? almost like a pointer in programming? | |
| [01:10] <jrib> lejon: sure kind of | |
| [01:11] <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? | |
| [01:13] <jrib> lejon: right, you can point to any file, including files on other partitions | |
| [01:13] <lejon> wow, thats useful | |
| [01:14] <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 | |
| [01:15] * lejon pokes jrib | |
| [01:15] <jrib> lejon: you need to add them to your ~/.bashrc | |
| [01:16] <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 | |
| [01:17] <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 | |
| [01:18] <lejon> ah! | |
| [01:19] <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 | |
| [01:20] <jrib> lejon: good night | |
| [01:20] <lejon> jrib I might cya later or something | |
| [01:20] <lejon> Good night sir | |
| [14:19] <lejon> jrib, are you there? | |
| [14:52] <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 | |
| [14:53] <lejon> jrib and then in that file I define aliases by writting "alias ls=ls -a" and then save? | |
| [14:54] <jrib> should be like: | |
| [14:54] <jrib> alias ls='ls -a' | |
| [14:55] <lejon> within single qoutes, does it have to be? | |
| [14:55] <jrib> the spaces need to be escaped somehow I believe. '' is one way | |
| [14:56] <lejon> or \ right? | |
| [14:57] <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 | |
| [14:58] <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 | |
| [14:59] <lejon> Cool, its people like you that lift up communities to what they are, keep the good work up mate *thumbs up* | |
| [16:15] <lejon> jrib, you s till here? | |
| [16:15] <jrib> lejon: somewhat | |
| [16:16] <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 | |
| [16:17] <lejon> something more I have to do? | |
| [16:19] <jrib> two things | |
| [16:20] <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? | |
| [16:21] <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 | |
| [16:22] <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 | |
| [16:23] <lejon> it worked now, thanks for teaching me that :P | |
| [16:26] <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 | |
| [16:27] <lejon> jrib, will do | |
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