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I think whats most disturbing is... who impregnated a 5 year old?? Jen Arianna Frances

OMG the same type of thing happened to my husband this weekend! Him and a friend went to Montreal for the weekend and at the border they got some border guard that had a stick up her ass.... She picked out most of the people in her line to go to customs. Then my husband finds out his 'friend' had a suspended license (he wasn't driving) because of back child support payments - so they got stuck at the border for 4 hours while that got all squared away. That was going into Canada - coming back they had no trouble at all - and thats usually were we've been stopped before. Must be the weather or something Jen Arianna Frances

OMG! Thats so cool!!! Congrats to that two of you

Happy B-Day girl! Hope your celebrating in style! Just don't get as drunk as me that time.... Jen Arianna Frances

Then you will find many programmers will have difficulty working on your programs after you. With the way many programmers (especially those around since the late 70s/80s) initialize variables comments are definitely needed int a vs. int a //for account number makes a huge difference! Documentation makes modular programming easier to work with. Its bad enough you get sh!tty design like many of M$ products, but to get it without the proper documentation - ha! you might as well through it in the trash. Your only shooting yourself in the foot without comments/documentation. Jen Arianna Frances

Ok, so I'm getting partial credit on that one question because I did use the correct syntax for copy: cp $* $HOME/backup. The final, piece of cake! If I end up at a place that actually uses UNIX then I'll probably take the rest of the course. Thanks for everyones help! Jen Arianna Frances

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LOL! Don't be! I'm totally loving my Java and C++ classes! They rock! PS. I'm taking some of these classes at a community college too - learning more there than at the university! That 'real world' experience makes a HUGE difference! Jen Arianna Frances

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Thanks tons for your help Brian - and everyone. I have to pass in the assignment now.... but I was still getting those errors.... very interesting how it all works... but I'm looking forward to my 'last class' tonight Jen Arianna Frances

Not in the wrong direction at all! I wish I could use it, but I'd get zero points for using someting that hasn't been covered yet. I just need to get this part to work.... even my JAVA and C++ classes this semester have been easier than this UNIX class Jen Arianna Frances

oh boy - this is making me laugh! $ ls backup myls $ alias copy="$@ ~/backup" $ ls backup big.ouput big.output buckaroo demo myls project whoison $ copy demo -bash: /home/jdece/backup: is a directory $ ls backup myls $ Arianna Frances

I don't know exactly... it seems to me, in the example he gave that he was creating an alias (mycopy) for the cp command, so figuring I should do the same... but its not working... of course not, I have 10 min. to submit it in, so of course its not working Jen Arianna Frances

makes sense - thanks! $ alias mycopy="cp $* ~/backup" $ ls myls $ cd /home/jdece $ ls backup big.ouput big.output buckaroo demo myls project whoison $ mycopy demo cp: omitting directory `/home/jdece/backup' Still getting that stupid error tho Arianna Frances

I know it will work, and do it well.... but we haven't gone over if/then/else statements in this class yet How come when your learning something they show you the way you SHOULDN"T do something before they show you the way you should, or the way that is best? Jen Arianna Frances

Thanks for all your help guys. I realize I should probably feel more fortunate with this class... but what I feel is overwhelmed. This was a UNIX Admin course that was crammed into 5 weeks - its a 3 part course that will next include programming for UNIX (which I thankfully don't have to take). As a programming major I should be enjoying it, but I'm feeling confused.... I'll eventually get it, just not in this class. The error I'm getting when creating the alias is such: $ cd $ ls backup big.ouput big.output buckaroo demo myls project whoison $ cd /home $ ls aevan gclar nfakh os18 os27 os36 os45 os54 os63 os72 os9 aferr gwolc os1 os19 os28 os37 os46 os55 os64 os73 pjean balbr hmuhl os10 os2 os29 os38 os47 os56 os65 os74 psoum bgrah jdece os11 os20 os3 os39 os48 os57 os66 os75 rdefe cmarq jogid os12 os21 os30 os4 os49 os58 os67 os76 rfont cmore jvinc os13 os22 os31 os40 os5 os59 os68 os77 rguin dkrus kchho os14 os23 os32 os41 os50 os6 os69 os78 style donp ljack os15 os24 os33 os42 os51 os60 os7 os79 svinc egonz mflah os16 os25 os34 os43 os52 os61 os70 os8 wpass ffont nbroo os17 os26 os35 os44 os53 os62 os71 os80 wprice $ cd /home/jdece $ ls backup big.ouput big.output buckaroo demo myls project whoison $ unalias mycopy $ alias mycopy="cp $* /backup" $ mycopy demo cp: cannot stat `/backup': No such file or directory $ ls backup big.ouput big.output buckaroo demo myls project whoison $ unalias mycopy $ ls -l total 28 drwxrwxr-x 2 jdece jdece 4096 Oct 5 14:20 backup -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdece jdece 31 Oct 5 11:48 big.ouput -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdece jdece 251 Oct 5 10:58 big.output -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdece jdece 279 Oct 5 11:56 buckaroo -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdece jdece 198 Oct 5 10:55 demo -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdece jdece 0 Oct 5 13:07 myls drwxrwxr-x 6 jdece jdece 4096 Sep 28 15:05 project -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdece jdece 185 Sep 28 14:44 whoison $ ls -f . .bash_profile .bash_history .viminfo myls backup .. .bashrc project demo buckaroo .bash_logout .emacs whoison big.output big.ouput $ ls -F backup/ big.ouput big.output buckaroo demo myls project/ whoison $ alias mycopy="cp $* backup" $ mycopy demo cp: omitting directory `backup' $ What am I doing wrong that alias is not working? Arianna Frances

Unfortunately, this is not the case with mine... (wish it was) He works as a unix system admin for Fleet Bank (now Bank of America) during the day and teaches this class one night a week (just as he has for 9 years now). Sometimes I think he takes for granted that we're STUDENTS who don't know jack sh!t about this. I really hope my first job doesn't involve UNIX.... Jen Arianna Frances

Yes, i using bash.... but I'm still horribly confused... I hate this book.... I was able to copy the file to the newly created backup directory... but I did it using the cp command should I be using an alias to rename the cp command according to the example that he used? Jen Arianna Frances

but is that a script? the example my teacher gave in notes (as bare minimum as they are) have something a bit different if it was just a matter of creating the directory and copying the file... well crap, thats the easy part EDIT TO ADD MY TEACHERS EXAMPLE: Example: mycopy letter memo The above would copy the files letter and memo to /home/rdefe/backup Jen Arianna Frances

Then please help me! I missed class last week - and the book (Teach yerself UNIX in 24 hours ) is confusing me. I have 1 more question on my homework assignment but I have to study for the test tonight too and I'm feeling very overwhelmed. Create a shell script that will copy a file (named myls) to a backup directory located in your home directory. I feel so stupid that I can't figure this out Thanks for any and all help! Jen Arianna Frances

Good to know

Phew! Thanks for restoring my faith NCrowe! Jen Arianna Frances

Just browsing the forums which I haven't had too much time to do lately... Came across this thread and it makes me wonder if women are actually held to this standard by men? I never 'played' the field really - been in the same relationship since I was 19 and I guess I should be glad. Dating must be tough if we're compared to 'pin up girls' Please say it ain't so guys! Jen Arianna Frances

Interesting.... But for skydiving videos I tend to lean more toward cross-over classical groups such as Bond. Ever heard of them? They're incredible!!! Jen Arianna Frances

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