At 2:07 AM +1000 6/16/07, David Timms wrote: >Steven Bakker wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:03:20 -0400 Tony Nelson wrote: >> >>>>> cp -a ~/.* >>>> Not simple. If you do that you'll try to copy over the parent tree due to >>>> '..' (that is satisfy your code) represents parent and '.' represents >>>> current folder. >>> Not simple, but how about: >>> >>> cp -a ~/.[!.]* . >> >> chsh -s /bin/zsh >> cp -a ~/.* >> >> ;-) >All those howto' are nice, but perhaps miss the point. Let's say I am a >new linux user. Many apps I start store their config somewhere. Where ? > >Why make the configs files hidden at all ? ... ... So new users won't edit them or delete them. Really. There is no information in those files that a *new* user can safely change. They must get competent technical assistance first, which will know about .files as well as which files to change and how. This is *nix, and it is not "safe". Stupid user story: About 10 years ago, my brother commented that he'd grown to approve of Mac OS after his boss was moved from MSWindows (version?) to a Mac. His boss would "free up space" by deleting any file or directory that struck his fancy. This made MSWindows stop working, when he would delete applications or system directories, and it took a while to fix. On the Mac, putting files in the trash did no horm, and my brother would, once a week, select all files that shouldn't have been deleted and use the Put Away command on them, and then empty the trash. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
