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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? What was your first Linux distribution? Post 302594118 by absorber on Monday 30th of January 2012 01:26:23 PM
Old 01-30-2012
Horrible experience with Ubuntu 8.04 as a liveCD to install PureData Extended and mess around with it.
Everything was breaking and I couldn't find the cause, little did I know that it didn't give me a warning when the virtual filesystem (which was entirely located in RAM) was getting full.
Went to the #ubuntu channel on freenode and started asking around, that's when I came in contact with the shell commands. I had no idea what I was doing, and what power the commands had when ran with the right privileges. So I accidentally wiped a whole system partition. That's where I learned the powers of the shell... The hard way.

All in all I swore never to touch Linux (-related OS'es) again until a friend of a friend of mine sat down with me and explained the basics of how Linux worked and the power of the shell. I was amazed at the flexibility of the system and that's where I learned the powers of clear explanation Smilie
Afterwards I picked up a book called "How to teach yourself UNIX in 10 Minutes" and everything went better than expected. Fast forward a couple of years and I bought a cheap dualcore Atom netbook and installed CentOS 5 on it to experiment with various stuff on it like web hosting.
I am still using Windows as my main OS but that's primarily because of certain DAWs (Ableton Live in particular). However, I'm still interested in learning about *nix systems because I'm always eager to learn things which I don't understand yet.
 

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cr(1)							      General Commands Manual							     cr(1)

NAME
cr - converts text files between nix EOL and dos EOL SYNOPSIS
cr - | + <input file> <output file> DESCRIPTION
Text files, such as tle files, that come from a dos source usualy have the ^M symbol at the end of every line. Cr converts files between the dos newline format and the normal *nix newline format by stripping the ^M to convert dos to *nix, using the '-' option, or adding ^M to a *nix file to create the proper dos file when the '+' option is used. Although this extra character is not often a problem, programs like seesat5, which are data driven will encounter parsing problems when the extra character is present. It is these problems that cr is intended to repair. Options - | + One or the other of these options is required. The '-' option is used to remove ^M from all newlines found in the dos file. The '+' option is used to add ^M to every newline found in a *nix file. input file Fully delineated path to the input file. As this program is used in the dos environment as well, standard input is not used. output file Fully delineated path to the output file. As this program is used in the dos environment as well, standart output is not used. SEE ALSO
seesat5(1), seesat5(7), SEESAT5.INI(5), tle(5) BUGS
Cr is not an inteligent program. It methodicaly replaces/removes the offending character when it finds it in the correct context. Newline sequences found in contexts other than 'newline' will be replaced/removed just like those found in the proper context. Passing a binary file through cr is not advised, for this reason. Send all inqueries to Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>. Debian Linux 2 April 96 cr(1)
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