On 5/12/2010 3:53 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
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> Almost any introductory book on Linux/UNIX that covers the standard
> command line utilities (sed, awk, greg, egrep, tr, cut, etc) could
> have answered the questions he had.
I don't think you've actually looked at current introductory books.
Everyone tries to combine the tutorial with the reference these days and
ends up with something that doesn't quite work for either purpose. And
none deal with the fact that you have to understand what the shell is
going to do with your command line before you will be very good at
understandin a man page for any other tool.
> Perl's slogan: There's more than one way to do it.
Yes, but if you start wrong you'll probably end up wrong.
> oh, I forgot, emacs macros can do this too. Don't know of any gui
> tools that are worth having.
Try eclipse sometime.
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