[Discuss] Firefox with RedHat Fedora

David Bronaugh dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org
Fri Jan 19 01:25:11 PST 2007


Murray Strome wrote:
> There was a time when I was quite expert with UNIX, but can no longer 
> remember most of what I once knew (I cannot even remember how to 
> change the command line prompt in a terminal to look like what I would 
> prefer, 
Adjust the PS1 variable in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc... man 
bash, search PS1 (hit /PS1<enter>).
> how to use SED and AWK,
sed s/something/something_else/

Uses ISO regular expressions, not Perl.

I have to admit that I never use Awk; I just write Perl instead.
>   and I even have to look up how to tar and gzip things then extract 
> them again from the command line as I cannot usually cannot remember 
> it from the last time I used it a few months before).
tar xzvf <file.tar.gz>
> Murray
David


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