Telnet help
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cd "/media/My Video"
Ezra Pound
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I have added a few of the more basic commands in the WiKi HERE
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BMAX
Active Member
Thanks Martin.
When I try that I get '/bin/sh: can't cd to Media/My Video'
D
Deleted member 473
Try
cd /
to get to the root folder. Then
cd
followed by a space and then press Tab repeatedly to cycle through all directories. You can also
cd m
followed by Tab to see all folders starting with m.
ls
will give you a directory listing. If a directory has a space in its name, the Tab will fill in any special characters you need to insert, eg, "My\ Video".
Works perfectly here. The error message suggests you capitalised the M in media.
Black Hole
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The humax# prompt indicates the console is ready for command input, the commands being Linux shell (bash, I think) - so google "Linux commands".
It's 'ash' and not Linux specific but close enough for pit work : )
D
Deleted member 473
What? sh? ash? bash? What next? brash? crash?
That's a phrase I haven't heard for many a year. You're not from mining stock by any chance ?
Owen Smith
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There is also csh (C Shell), but I don't like it. sh is normally Bourne Shell. bash (which I like) is Bourne Again Shell. I don't know what ash is. Maybe there should be a lash?
D
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ash is a small implementation of the Bourne shell but with some additional features/extensions taken from ksh/bash. It's part of the busybox tools and very poorly documented (google for its documentation and all you get is posts from other people asking where to find the documentation), although most of the documentation for the Debian Ash (dash) shell is applicable.
I tend to write scripts in ksh these days as it's on all of the system types I use. It's largely bourne compatible but has some extra features and different behaviour in some instances (such as not spawning a subshell for a while loop).
Anyway, if you're going to learn a shell, learn Bourne. If you insist on learning Bash then do try and keep a handle on what is a Bash extensions versus standard Bourne and don't complain that the up arrow is broken the first time you use a pure Bourne shell!
(for my interactive sessions, I favour zsh - so many choices!)
I tend to write scripts in ksh these days as it's on all of the system types I use. It's largely bourne compatible but has some extra features and different behaviour in some instances (such as not spawning a subshell for a while loop).
Anyway, if you're going to learn a shell, learn Bourne. If you insist on learning Bash then do try and keep a handle on what is a Bash extensions versus standard Bourne and don't complain that the up arrow is broken the first time you use a pure Bourne shell!
(for my interactive sessions, I favour zsh - so many choices!)
Owen Smith
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Up arrow is the main reason I like bash, and I regard any shell that doesn't have it as defective.
EDIT: but I've been around long enough that I remember when the only choices were Bourne Shell, ksh or csh. Between the three of them they made me dislike unix (Linux didn't exist at the time).
EDIT: but I've been around long enough that I remember when the only choices were Bourne Shell, ksh or csh. Between the three of them they made me dislike unix (Linux didn't exist at the time).
Black Hole
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Gimme CP/M
D
Deleted member 473
It was that dreadful editor vi that made me dislike Unix. That and Emacs. Things are better now.
Some colleagues of mine wrote a book on CP/M just as it died.
Owen Smith
Well-Known Member
I'd almost expunged my horrifed memories of vi and emacs. It was such a relief to use nano on my Raspberry Pi, finally a sensible text terminal editor on unix. Indeed things are better now.