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#SIGH# If I had a dollar for every time by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #1 Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 09:11:39 AM EST

I've taught an IT employee, not even an off shored employee, how to drag files from one Explorer window to another -- or even between panes in the same window. And if I had a dollar for every time I explained the difference between holding down <CTRL> vs holding down <SHIFT> while dragging...

And then there's the unix side:
Me - "Just type in 'mv <file_path_and_name> .'"
Them - "Dot? What is dot?"
Me - "Dot. You know, a period"
Them - "I know that! What's it for?"
Me - #THUMP#
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou

Two schools of thought here re:Unix by debacle (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 09:57:23 AM EST

Do you go to the copyto directory and type "mv <path> ." or do you go to the copyfrom directory and type "mv * <path>?"

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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Schools of thought by anonimouse (4.00 / 1) #5 Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 10:05:33 AM EST

...is an overdignified term.

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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I'm a copyto kind of guy. by greyrat (4.00 / 2) #7 Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 10:12:27 AM EST

That way I don't have to go somewhere, perform a move and then come back. I just get what I want from where it was and immediately go to work on it. For example, which is more efficient?

$cp home/debacle.profile .
$vi .profile

$cd home/debacle
$cp .profile home/greyrat.
$cd ~
$vi .profile

Even if you take out the 'cd ~' from the second example (which has certain implications) you come out behind the first example.

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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou
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: Stupid auto format! by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #8 Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 10:14:35 AM EST

s.home./home.g
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou
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