The little things are pretty amazing about Linux.

[redrumloa]

As I slowly RTFM learning command line, I am amazed by how much can be accomplished by the basic command line (BASH etc).

Starting with 5 VOB files, I decided I wanted one. No easy way to do this in Wintendo, but I happened to think of cat on Linux.

cat zombie* > zombie.vob

~3 minutes later I had the 5 combined into one big file.

Nothing major, I just thought it was neat;-)

[Linchpin]

Linux rox, the ONLY reason i dont use it anymore is due to the lack of DVD burning apps. Why bother using 3/4 programs when on Winblows I can use 1 .... Sad really, becouse i Really started to get into Fedora earlier this year.

[redrumloa]

LinchpiN wrote:
Linux rox, the ONLY reason i dont use it anymore is due to the lack of DVD burning apps.

Umm there is a program bundled with SUSE 9.2 that burns DVDs just fine. I just burned a data DVD last night.

[TheMagicM]

cool distro.. I use the same.. yea, k3b I think is what its called..works great here also.

[Linchpin]

But, it cant compress files, ie DVDshrink on windows.

[Belial6]

This can be done on Wintendo also...  You use the 'Copy' command.  From the help:

"To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format)."

It's been a long time since I've needed to append files, but I wouldn't be suprised if you could use the wild card in with those +s.

Of course there are tons of things that are amazing in Linux that you cannot do with Windows.  Just wait until you get into regular expressions.

[dammy]

Linux is a very very nice OS.  I'm more then happy with it as a desktop and server OS. I have a XP/FC3 dual booting for my main gaming system, it's a sense of relief when I reboot into Linux after playing DAoC.  

Dammy

[dammy]

Linux rox, the ONLY reason i dont use it anymore is due to the lack of DVD burning apps. Why bother using 3/4 programs when on Winblows I can use 1 .... Sad really, becouse i Really started to get into Fedora earlier this year.

Hrm?  K3B rocks as a CD/DVD burner front end.  Just do "yum install k3b" and enjoy a truely nice buring package!  My hat is off to the K3B crew.

Dammy
FC3

[adolescent]

K3B is nice.  But, it still doesn't support all the features of the command line cdrecord.  For instance, it would refuse to burn BIN/CUE files onto CD-R on my DVD-R drive.  Although, it would happily do them on the CD-R drive, and I could do it from the command line.  But, what do you expect for free.

And, as mentioned, DOS/Windows COPY command can combine multiple files quite easily.

[Linchpin]

Hrm? K3B rocks as a CD/DVD burner front end. Just do "yum install k3b" and enjoy a truely nice buring package! My hat is off to the K3B crew.

Sure! I had K3B installed, was burning CD's nice, and worked well. Maybe i should re-phrase it, not so much the burning but the compression, etc (making DVD 9 fit DVD 5 disks), im sorry Windows comes out tops.

[redrumloa]

adolescent wrote:
And, as mentioned, DOS/Windows COPY command can combine multiple files quite easily.

Well, I'll be.. Shows how little I have used DOS;-) I only ever used DOS when I had to. Oh well, that's just one thing. There are other things like the 'find' command that I'm sure DOS doesn't have. Alot of the tools in /proc are pretty cool. DOS is weak, copying entire subfolders with their contents seems to be impossible.

[T_Bone]

Bah. Bash. ZSH has it all over bash.

Z Shell RULES!

I discovered a new feature today... the command line completion in ZSH recognises the Gentoo Portage tree! Try it! Type Emerge then hit tab and it will list matches in portage.

[Hammer]

redrumloa wrote:
As I slowly RTFM learning command line, I am amazed by how much can be accomplished by the basic command line (BASH etc).

Starting with 5 VOB files, I decided I wanted one. No easy way to do this in Wintendo, but I happened to think of cat on Linux.

Install Cygwin.

[mikeymike]

The thing that really annoys me about *NIX variants is just how often it seems to happen that a software installation will break in some way and nothing can be done to fix it, unless you're pretty damn good with the OS/package manager in question.

The usual (but rare) reason an installer breaks on Windows is because of a corrupted download, otherwise it is rare that I've seen any installer issues.  Nor can I remember the last time it happened to me on AmigaOS either, but I've not used AmigaOS as much as I have Windows.  On all *NIX variants I've tried (a number of Linux distros, and FreeBSD), even seriously popular software installs break, the ones I would have thought would have been tested far more, such as Gnome, break, and it has always been the reason why I've stopped trying out the OS in question.

This is usually where people will say that their favourite package manager is the best since sliced bread :-)

[mrsad]

LinchpiN wrote:
Linux rox, the ONLY reason i dont use it anymore is due to the lack of DVD burning apps. Why bother using 3/4 programs when on Winblows I can use 1

K3B will get you there. The thing about linux is, you can anything on GUI and CLI, but you have to know how and what to use.