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The Linux Bits
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http://www.thebits.co.uk
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----[ EDITORIAL
Hello once again my fine feathered friends. I'm proud to announce that The Linux Bits now has over a thousand subscribers!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone involved! I'd also to thank everyone that provided the necessary feedback to help improve the site and this newsletter. The Bits takes its feedback seriously, so if anyone has any suggestions or criticisms, then please... let me know.
Right, I've had my say for this week, hope you enjoy the newsletter! :)
----[ A LINUX COMMAND FOR YOU TO TRY OUT
A nice little command for you to try out is:
wc filename
Here's an example text file I created to illustrate the wc command:
This is my example text file!
By Laurence Hunter
I saved this file as hello.txt and then issued the command:
wc hello.txt
Which displayed the following:
3 9 50 hello.txt
Worked out what it's done? The 3 is the line count for hello.txt, 9 is the word count, and 50 (47 characters + 3 carriage returns) is the character count. Here's the options you can add to wc:
wc -l Only display the line count.
wc -w Only display the word count.
wc -c Only display the character count.
Another Quick Command
find / -name "myfile" > found.txt
...scans your entire filesystem for files called myfile and stores the paths in the file found.txt. You could then issue the command:
wc -l found.txt
...to discover how many files it found!
----[ THIS WEEK'S NEWBIE'S LINUX MANUAL UPDATES
New Sections
Now How Do I Setup, Get and Send My E-Mails? (30th April)
(Update Note: Now titled Setting-up fetchmail and Pine)
Updated Sections
I Need To Know The Most Useful Linux Commands (4th May)
(Update Note: Now split into multiple sections. Section 1 can be found here.)
The No Nonsense Red Hat Installation Guide (3rd May)
Under Construction
The Shell (6th May)
Files (6th May)
----[ QUOTE OF THE WEEK
I reckon the quote of the week has to be following from an article in the Edmonton Journal:
"Microsoft takes up the single largest chunk of floor space at Comdex for its Windows 2000 system. But the densest crowds have flocked to a cluster of booths that feature Linux..."
- Source -
----[ CREDITS
This week's The Linux Bits has been brought to you by:
Laurence Hunter- Creator & Sole Writer
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