windows Fahmon viewing VMware Ubuntu

Ignore the $ in KE1HA's posts, its part of the prompt, like c:> in windows, except that different distros of linux do the prompt a little differently.

When I'm in my home directory for example, my prompt looks like this:
Code: 
[uncle_fungus@Iguana ~]$

Just typing "cd" will take you straight to your home directory.
If you want to go direct to somewhere in your home directory, use "~" as a shortcut.
I.e. to print the contents of unitinfo.txt to the screen, wherever you are in the filesystem, just type
"cat ~/foldingathome/CPU1/unitinfo.txt" (assuming foldingathome is actually inside your home directory ;) )
 
and all those months I've been using cd ~ to get home :)

I.e. to print the contents of unitinfo.txt to the screen, wherever you are in the filesystem, just type
"cat ~/foldingathome/CPU1/unitinfo.txt"
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It it generally good practice to always work from 'Home' as a datum?
Thanks again uncle for the clarification (hopefully my questions are now rated extreme novice instread of noob :D)
 
shadowscotland said:
How?

Found D's old post on the subject in the original SMP quide thread - but you need to right click on icons (And I have none now)

whats the long way of setting permissions (can't wait)

thanks in advance
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Just make a vmware shared folder (being the Folding folder) and point Windows Fahmon to that, then you don't even need a network :)
 
VMware Tools :)
SO they are usefull to us server folks :D

Nice one Craig321

Edit: to all those that have tried to improve my very limited Ubuntu knowlage you have my eternal thanks.
 
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uncle_fungus said:
You needn't pipe to grep and less since they both accept files as input.

Code: 
grep Progress ~/foldingathome/CPU1/unitinfo.txt

Code: 
less FAHlog.txt

I think you mean "tail -f" not "tails -f" ;)
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Re: tail: ... yes, that was a typo.

Re: grep: Dont know what I was thinking, just a straight grep would suffice.

Re: VMware File Share. I messed about with that, not sure I like that method, probably becasue I'm used to using Samba, it's all an individual preference I suppose.

Re: Prompt: yes my Linux Prompt is: [ke1ha@ub-q6600-3:~$]

If you want to get fancy with your bash prompt: Go Here

Examples

If you want to see the familiar c:\ prompt just type the following:

export PS1="c:\ "

then you prompt will look like WinDoze:

c:\

There's lots of How-To's on Bash Prompts, just Google it.
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