From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?
> Regardless I applaud people who write documentation in any form and through it try to help other people out. That spirit of helping
> others is awesome.
I totally agree with you.
However that spirit of trying to help people out is quite lacking here, on this mailing list. I don't wish to call out their names.
AskUbuntu.com is a totally awesome site where volunteers who are experts in their own fields answer questions without asking ordinatry
folks like me to read "man pages" or "reference guides" even after I have told them I do not know how to apply the syntax of the options of various commands.
An example of an awesome answer that I got from an awesome expert on that awesome AskUbuntu.com is the following:
apt-cache search java | awk '{print($1)}' | grep -E -e '^(ia32-)?(sun|oracle)-java' -e '^openjdk-' -e '^icedtea' -e '^(default|gcj)-j(re|dk)' -e '^gcj-(.*)-j(re|dk)' -e 'java-common' | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove
Yet another example of an awesome answer:
dpkg --list 'linux-image-*' \
| perl -ane 'BEGIN { $r = `uname -r` or die; chomp $r } print $F[1], "\n" if $F[0] eq "ii" && $F[1] !~ /\Q$r\E\b/' \
| xargs -r aptitude purge -y
I bet that no one here is willing to give that kind of awesome answers, assuming that they know. The so-called experts here will tell me to first read the official Debian Reference manual, "man pages" and maybe a book on bash scripting for the uninitiated.