Quote from: McCork

Let me put it this way, it's like asking people who have Windows 7 what their favorite command is.

No it isn't, as most Windows users don't use the command line. Command line use in Linux is marketed heavily to Linux users as one of the attractions of Linux, making tasks easier to accomplish instead of using gui programs. I always ask Linux users I encounter about favorite commands, as I assume that they have a passing knowledge of the command line (which they usually do, unlike Windows users) and I'm hoping to learn about a new command to add to my toolbox.

That you think it's a sign that I don't use Linux because I'm asking you and Matthew about some of your favorite commands makes me wonder if you use Linux.

Yeah "handy" is a better word. It's still strange that you would think I'm pretending to be a Linux user. Are you an overly-suspicious person?

I hadn't heard of chattr before. I'll probably get some use out of that command.

This command will go through a folder and zip no more than 200 files for each zip. The resulting zips can be opened individually. Replace "200" with the number of files desired for each zip. This command requires GNU Parallel program. Not parallel from moreutils.

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find * ! -name "*.zip" -type f -print0 | parallel -0 -N 200 zip arch{#} {}

I have been working with Linux command-line professionally for over 11 years, and that word doesn't come up among co-workers. Perhaps you meant to say "handiest" or "most frequently resorted to" [....] 

One of the handy things I have run across is when you have so many files in a directory that there is trouble deleting them all. Perhaps the windows GUI knows how to handle it,

[...] but what I do on the command-line is to go into the directory and use the "chattr +i" on any file. This makes the file indestructible. Then I go back outside the directory and do

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;rm&#160;-rf <directoryname>

[where the '<' and '>' are not to be typed, but they and the terse description they enclose must be replaced by the actual name
of the directory.]
This deletes all the files in the directory except for the indestructible one. This prevents the directory itself from being deleted too. Then go in the directory and do "chattr&#160;-i" on that file and delete it as normal.

Quote from: McCork (Posted Feb 06, 2016, 1:43 pm)

I have been working with Linux command-line professionally for over 11 years, and that word doesn't come up among co-workers. Perhaps you meant to say "handiest" or "most frequently resorted to" [....]&#160;

One of the handy things I have run across is when you have so many files in a directory that there is trouble deleting them all. Perhaps the windows GUI knows how to handle it,

I infer from the lower-case 'w' that you meant the specific W.I.M.P. user-interface available on a specific user's Linux system, because the procedure to be used on the Microsoft flagship product is hardly any secret.

Quote from: McCork (Posted Feb 06, 2016, 1:43 pm)

[...] but what I do on the command-line is to go into the directory and use the "chattr&#160;+i" on any file. This makes the file indestructible. Then I go back outside the directory and do

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;rm&#160;-rf <directoryname>

[where the '<' and '>' are not to be typed, but they and the terse description they enclose must be replaced by the actual name
of the directory.]
This deletes all the files in the directory except for the indestructible one. This prevents the directory itself from being deleted too. Then go in the directory and do "chattr&#160;-i" on that file and delete it as normal.

Yikes!  An accomplishment that can be catastrophic for the inexperienced users who are almost certainly the majority in this (sub)forum.  Do you really believe that it's prudent to show readers herein how to delete (d.b.a. "rm" for "remove") all their files, without pointing out that your example uses the options that do it recursively ("r") and prevent ("f" for "force") what would otherwise be a second chance provided by the dialog (rare from *nix commands) that requires confirmation by the user first?  Especially considering that average nontechnical users, left to their own inclinations, tend to create few--if any--directories to group or organize files that they use?

My 2c from a "normal" PC user ... I know nothing about command lines, etc

I just started using Linux Mint (in Dec?). Most of what I do is internet-based and since I was using Chrome before, there's nothing different about moving to Linux.

LibreOffice has a few quirks that annoy me, but it's been able to get the job done with everything I've needed so far.

After 15+ years of using Quicken, I've moved to KMyMoney with only a few complaints, but nothing show-stopping.

I don't like that there is not a "recent docuмents" option on the start menu because I previously used that a lot.

Matthew set me up so I can still use Picasa, but as it can't see my camera or scanner, it's not quite the same useful program I had before. Hopefully, he'll figure that one out sooner or later.

Biggest peeve is that I can't print coupons. Most online coupon providers use coupons.com and it doesn't work with Linux. Hopefully Matthew will figure out a work-around for this as well, but I doubt I'd ever be able to figure it out myself.

In short, I still think you need to be a computer guy (or married to one) in order to move to Linux and not have to part with a functionality or two. But, the FREE on the price tag is enough reason to give it a try.

Matthew, what should I consider when choosing between MATE and Cinnamon?