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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jan 2006 16:47 UTC, submitted by anonymous

"A conceptual understanding of file systems, especially data structure and related terms, will help you become a successful system administrator. I have seen many new Linux system administrator without any clue about file systems. The conceptual knowledge can be applied to restore file systems in an emergency situation."

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RE: Re: what about BSD

by Sphinx on Tue 31st Jan 2006 01:42 UTC in reply to "Re: what about BSD"

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2005-07-09

Test the commands you recommend first or end up looking the n00b. Some sort of bizarro shell that doesn't care about matching quotation marks?

Maybe shell-commands 101.

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RE[2]: Re: what about BSD

by sadyc on Wed 1st Feb 2006 11:00 in reply to "RE: Re: what about BSD"

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2005-11-10

The commands work very well under bash.
Anyway, the point was that you can use quotation marks (or escape sequences or whatever your shell provides) to handle weird file names.

Edited 2006-02-01 11:01

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RE[3]: Re: what about BSD

by Sphinx on Wed 1st Feb 2006 16:07 in reply to "RE[2]: Re: what about BSD"

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2005-07-09

I'm sorry kids but no shell on earth will let you enter an unmatched quote, what planet are you trying that on? If you escape those odd quotes with a back slash, then and only then will that work.

You can mod that down all you want but there is no excuse for flaming someone's factual article with non-sensical un-tested shell commands. I find such silly syntax far more insulting. Respect your shell and get to know it. Besides that and to the point wildcards are a piss poor substitute for surgical removal by inode of badly named files. If you refuse to do it properly then at least check your pattern with an ls first.

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