Subj : Slimmed down Debian
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sat Sep 14 2019 08:57:00


Hi Mike!

-=> MIKE POWELL wrote to KY MOFFET <=-
 > These linux commandline utils are too blind for me. I want to see what
 > it's doing, not type something intuitive like
 > rsync /.n4 -xx#?1 -/rmx DD pW +Zcvnx \drCx /smb2 --2
 > (all case sensitive, of course)
 > and wonder what the hell just happened!

I think Ky was commenting on some of the 'crypticness' of the command
lines.  Windows tends to use only a handful of switch options while some
of the Linux utilities use the entire alphabet, single digit numbers,  
then also a bunch of characters.  Plus that "/.n4" for a hidden 
directory.  BTW, "DD" won't work has has to be lower-cased.

And not that I don't agree in some ways with Ky: why "2>/dev/null" to 
not show 'junk' listings for 'find', etc.?  Don't know if 1 or any other
number works.



 MP> I have never looked, but there may be one with a graphical
 MP> interface out there somewhere which would show you its progress
 MP> as it goes.
 
I have sometimes used 'pv' or the '--status' to display a progress bar 
or some sort of "what's going on?" type of display.  Handy with dd where
nothing displays to Terminal otherwise; is it working??


 > Only time I installed Samba, I wound up less networked than before. :/
 MP> Me also.  It turned out that samba had been updated to fix some
 MP> security holes and the OS/2 Warp 4 version of Windows networking
 MP> was no longer compatible with it.  :(

Not sure if this is the issue but with 18.04 one had to add another
switch (!) to get some old connections working.



#  To auto-mount NSA320's Backups directory for DejaDup
/192.168.0.200/Backups      /media/NSA320 cifs
username=xxx,password=xxx,iocharset=utf8,gid=1000,uid=1000,
file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,vers=1.0  0 0

(all one line)

The ",vers=1.0 " near the end of the third line is only needed to 
connect to older versions of SAMBA.



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