[ale] how do I list big files

[Ron Frazier]

Hi Scott,

That's pretty cool. It was good of you to check before shutting down. 
That's one thing I try to reinforce to anyone I advise about computers 
of modern vintage, never never just power off. Always use the shutdown 
procedure and wait for it to finish. Modern drives will autopark the 
heads, but you don't want a bunch of open OS and applications files 
hanging around at power off.

Ron

On 03/20/2011 03:37 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> On 03/20/2011 11:28 AM, Ron Frazier wrote:
>    
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Thanks for the tips.  I suspected it was something like that, but didn't
>> know what.
>>
>> I'm learning all the time, but it's a slow process.  I've been learning
>> DOS / Windows for 26 years, Linux for 1 year.  It will take a while to
>> develop comprehensive knowledge.  The first part of the learning curve
>> is the hardest.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>      
> I went the other way, UNIX first than DOS. It cost me a $5 LD call to
> find out that DOS didn't have a shutdown command. I later wrote a bat
> file that parked the heads and echoed "Safe to Power Down!"
>    
>> On 03/20/2011 10:21 AM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>>      
>>> Yes,>   is the shell redirection operator. 2>   says to redirect CD
>>> number two, which is the stderr stream.  Without an integer supplied,
>>> the stdout stream (number 1) is the default.
>>>
>>> The<   operator is input redirection. Its default target is the
>>> process' fd 0 (stdin), though again that can be changed. A program
>>> that, for example, opened a socket connection as fd 5 and fd 6 could
>>> be used with shell redirection (and even fancier pipelining) if desired.
>>>
>>> Again, I think you should spend some time getting familiar with "UNIX"
>>> as a whole.  Even concepts from the late 60s and 70s are still
>>> applicable on moden systems, and the basics are essentially unchanged.  :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
>>>
>>>
>>>        

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