Another helpful trick if you don't already use it is copy/paste in your terminal window. For instance, right click on a link to a file in a web page an do a "Copy Link Location" (or equivelant depending on browser). Then type "ncftpget" or "wget" and a space, then press both mouse buttons simultaneously in the terminal window and it will paste the link right in there, then just press enter.
I use this a lot when downloading RPMs on remote machines. I might be SSHed into a machine and have a browser on my local machine open. Copy the RPM URL and paste it into my wget command in the remote server. You can copy text from other locations in your terminal just by dragging your left mouse button, then click both buttons to paste it at your cursor location (actually this works in any X apps including KDE and Gnome apps).
Actually you can use tab completion on the command line and save even more typing like instead of typing "wget ", you could just type "wg" followed by TAB, then paste in your URL and press enter. Obviously this example didn't save a lot of keystrokes but every little bit helps.
But you pick up thousands of these little tips. The more you pick up the easier life gets and the more you begin to see the light.
[ October 08, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
