Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?i
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:39:22 -0500
From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
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> (2)
> The online information did not address my needs (and I suspect
> that tree-bound versions would suffer similar shortcomings). . . .
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Understood. Several times, with several subjects, I've felt
blocked, balked, & bewildered in much the same way.
My solution: I check out tutorial after tutorial, book after book --
till I find one I feel comfortable with. It must be at my level of
ignorance (make that 'innocence'), & I have to _like_ the way the
author writes. The search always takes time & torment, but in the
end it always works.
The first time was way back in the bad old DOS days. I knew nothing
at all about Unix, but obviously it was the language of the
Internet, & I had a shell account at Eskimo. I borrowed a Unix text
from Seattle Public Library -- & found it like wading in molasses.
I tried at least a dozen intros . . . .
Then I ran across Stan Kelly-Bootle's _Understanding UNIX_ (2e 1994
Sybex) & instantly felt right at home with his way of putting
things. His book pried the first brick out of the Unix sidewalk;
then Unix seemed easy, or at least logical.
Right now I, too, feel fated to never understand shell scripts. So
it's try, try again.
Wendell Cochran
West Seattle
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