Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Newbie looking for help

I am glad that you are enjoying Ubuntu. There is no Ubuntu 10.00, though,
just 10.04 and 10.10. The ten refers to the year and the decimal refers to
the month of release, so 10.10 is October of this year and 10.04 is April,
2010. Ubuntu comes out twice a year with a new version and with one
exception it has always been 04 and 10. The next version will be 11.04 which
comes out next April. Even numbered years in April are LTS releases (8.04,
10.04, 12.04 etc.) and the rest are regular releases. LTS means long term
support (3 years vs 18 months for a regular release, add an extra two years
for server LTS versions). Just so you know how it works. :)

Linux makes heavy use of scripts. They are just text files and you can make
them executable and set up a cron job to do it a fixed intervals. Here is a
scripting guide: http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/

There are lots more, just Google it.

Cron jobs:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-add-jobs-to-cron-under-linux-or-unix-oses/

There are utilities that can do back ups and such, too, from the GUI, but I
don't like to dissuade anyone who wants to become a commandline power user.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 17 December 2010 17:41, chipandfamily <chipandfamily@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> I've just put Ubuntu 64bit 10.00 linux onto my dell laptop, and absolutely
> am loving it! It's much faster then the windows vista that it originally
> came with (and less faulty, I've only had to re-boot Ubuntu once compared to
> the ten or fifteen times with windows in one month). Question:
>
> I'm not sure how to write scripts for my computer. I've read the help
> books, and I must admit that I'm no programmer and it makes no sense.
>
> What I'm trying to do is this:
>
> I just bought my wife an LCD picture frame. Each time we have new files, I
> want to have a script that will search the directory where all my
> photographs are at, and then copy it over to the SD card all the while
> ignoring the new photos. Also, i would want the script to move the photos
> from its subdirectories and move them to the Photos main directory and erase
> the subdirectories.
>
> I have no idea where to begin on something like this, so any help would
> definitely be appreciated.
>
> Merry Christmas, y'all.
>
> Chip
>
>
>

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