[thechat] Mandrake Linux

[Chris Evans]

Grep uses regular expressions to search for strings in a file.  For example,
if i had a file containing email addresses that I wanted to extract all .uk
addresses from, I would use the following command:

grep *.uk myemailfile.txt

Its a very powerful command - you can find more info by using the "man grep"
command to read the help page.

Hope that helps ( it is one of the very few *nix commands I know )

Chris Evans
chris at fuseware.com
http://www.fuseware.com



-----Original Message-----
From: thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Kevin Stevens
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:57 PM
To: thechat at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thechat] Mandrake Linux



> What's the grep command look like that you are using?  The form is:
>
>    grep pattern [files]

Thanks for the replies, could you define what you mean by pattern?

> I'm guessing your partitions are:
>
>    hda0 - /
>    hda6 - swap space

Yeah, but it seems to have taken 1 Gig as swap space, I was under the
impression that swap space is supposed to be about twice the size of your
RAM, of which I have 128 meg. And I am confused as to why it is labeling it
HDA6 instead of HDA1.

> To re-install, try booting from CD again.  It should prompt you to
> redo the install.  At least, it used to in Red Hat distributions.

Yes, you're correct, I can do this. The reason I wanted to re-format was to
set the partition sizes myself and to see if some of the problems I am
having re-appear. The grep thing mentioned above is one of them, also I
wrote some code to the bashrc file that should give me a prompt if I try to
overwrite something (I believe I got this from linux.org), but that isn't
working either. I am at that horrible newbie stage where I am unsure if it
is me being stupid or the machine :)

Kevin Stevens
kjs at ratking.co.uk

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