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wow, that was fast ;) It worked, thank you!

I'm trying my first shell script. I would like my computer to launch an application if I'm on my work network, or mount my shared files if I'm on my home network. Here's how I'm trying to do it...
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ah, cool...thanks! :)

frightening? does that mean it's a bad idea? i'm very much a *nix noob, so don't want to do anything stupid. I'm trying to archive files using tar (recommended to me elsewhere) then i figured i'd...

i'd like to have an alias (or something similar) where i can type a command like "archive" and a filename and have it tar and gzip the file, so...

$ archive filename

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in Bash i'm trying to rename directories full of files. the file name pretty much stays the same except for the numerical prefix which will be the same for all files. so, i want to rename these......