understandin man pages.

[OErjan]

yes that is ONE possibility (would likely work in knoppix), but you have to ceck in the manpage for every time you try, this is as older versions and other systems may react different to "", a quick check is apropriate.
keep asking.
EDIT
you are actualy asking good questons to start understanding things.
seems you have read some, nice to have one such for a change, you are willing to work some and do not ask for patent solutions to everything but want to UNDERSTAND things, it is hard just now but will make it easy later.
keep asking
OErjan

[LT72884]

OHHHH thanx so much for that compliment. im sooo glad someone other than myself understands me. I am the type of person who is very logical and if i dont understand the smallest thing in a command or a certian subject besides english,lol. i will not grasp the subject/command very well. i have to know why every little thing is doing what its doing. hence why i asked about the ""'s in a command. now i know. I love to try and understand things, and sometimes that involves killing my system like i did with photorec but i went in and found a way to fix it. i just hope when i go to school in january that my professor will be able to help me. the hardest thing for me to comprahend is when someone says " thats just the way it is, accept it" no, i dis agree. the is a reason to all things, and i have to know. lol

ok im done with my spell on my logical personality. any way im still thinkin of another way to remove the file name -Rf with out the rm command reading the-Rf as part of itself or an option of the rm command

Oh another question. what is oyur opinion of these classes im gonna take. im just wondering what people think about them. i just hope we get to mess with wireless internet/networx
The program is Cyber Security.

classes.

CCNA 1
Fndmntls Linux
Linux Ntwrks Admin
Adv Linux Admin
Info Systems Security
Adv Sec Arch/Models

[OErjan]

it gives you a platform to stand on, I guess that you are going to progress to higher levels than i have in time (too easy as i have not been student for almost a decade)...

[LT72884]

yeah i think they will be good classes to take.

mkdir /home/matt/lfs test

why does that command NOT make the directory test inside the lfs folder. i have no idea where it puts it. the lfs folder is there but when i list the contents of it, the test folder is not there.

also this comman mkdir /home/matt/lfs /test does soemthing wierd to.

[maxIT]

... also every time i run this command su -c kwrite it says can not connect to x server. what the heck is x server...

This is due to the fact that debian (and hence knoppix) since long time don't allow you to run graphics apps as root. To do that you have to log in in X (the graphich interface) in a tricky way (not via kdm), such as booting the sistem as "knoppix/linux single", login as root, and then load X directly via "startx" or "init 5".

[OErjan]

mkdir /home/matt/lfs test
will make two dir's in /home/matt one is called lfs and another that is caled test

[LT72884]

thats wierd, cuz when i did that mkdir /home/matt/lfs test it made the lfs folder but put the test folder in the current directy i was in. it took a while to find it. why did it put it in my current directy instead of the lfs folder. i think it might have something to do with the space i put in after /home/lfs(space)test. im thinkin the space made the bash think i was doing a seperate path/option for the mkdir command.

[maxIT]

thats wierd, cuz when i did that mkdir /home/matt/lfs test it made the lfs folder but put the test folder in the current directy i was in. it took a while to find it. why did it put it in my current directy instead of the lfs folder. i think it might have something to do with the space i put in after /home/lfs(space)test. im thinkin the space made the bash think i was doing a seperate path/option for the mkdir command.

Try mkdir -p /home/matt/lfs/test

According the 'mkdir man page': wasn't the topic?

-p, --parents
no error if existing, make parent directories as needed

[LT72884]

hmm, interesting. yeah the -p i have tryed before where it makes all parent directories. i already had the /home/matt/lfs folder and so when i wanted to make the test folder inside lfs and i put that space there, it for some reason put it into my current directory i was in.

LT72884@box# mkdir /home/matt/lfs test
can not create directories. you do not have permission
LT72884@box# su
password*******
root@box$ cd /home/matt
root@box$ ls
lfs sources files
root@box$ cd /
root@box$ mkdir /home/matt/lfs test
root@box$ cd /home/matt/lfs/test
no directory named test
root@box$ cd /home/matt/lfs
root@box$ ls

root@box$ cd /
root@box$ ls
bin,boot,dev,home,etc,mnt, test(there is my folder i made),lib,config,files, etc etc etc

so theres the command i did. i dont know why it didnt put the test folde into the lfs folder. the lfs folder is there and why it didnt put it in there .

[OErjan]

yes that would be the case as you gave no path for it, then it assumes you want it just where you stand