On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 09:11, Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 16:09 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Well, never trusting the "mv" command, I decided to do some experimenting and did:
When it comes to shifting personal files from spot A to B, especially if I'm starting from a home directory, I tend to use a graphical file manager. Cut from here, paste over there, tends to be quite simple and straightforward. No having to work out difficult wildcards, or workout if I'll accidentally wildcard in something from some other location.
It is unfortunate that <Ctrl-X> and <Ctrl-C> are next to each other on most keyboards. It would be nice to have a file manager that would display a visual summary of the actions defined by a command-line and let you edit your command line before running it.
When I worked in a place that made Windows the "enterprise standard", and when teaching workshops using student labs where the data files were on a Windows server, users cutting and pasting files, thus removing them from the server was a constant problem. Some Windows sites seem to block or remove read-only permissions in shares, so I never found a way to prevent this. On linux, using sudo, commands are saved to a log so you can review what you did when things didn't go as expected.