[thechat] Mandrake Linux
Chris Evans
chris at fuseware.com
Tue Jan 29 16:09:00 CST 2002
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
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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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