>>After reading your clever idea above, I doubt that I know more than you about Linux.
>>When you start banding about 'awk', 'grep', etc., it suggests that you are an odl Unix user!
>>The only thing I know is what I read in the howto's and what I've learned by installing and playing. And with my memory I
>forget most of that!
>
>Well, I am not an old Unix user...have learned most in the last few years, and most of that just from second-hand Usenet postings. I personally avoid cryptic command line tools like awk as if they were the plague. *smile*
>
>JoeK

Honestly, so do I. I will use mc (Midnight Commander) in a terminal, and also 'ls', 'ln', 'vdir' and 'tar'. But, 99% of the time I
use KFM and anthing GUI that will run from it, like xrpm, etc... Life it too short to remember a bunch of command line switches to
utilities.
JLK