I'm gonna leave off here because I don't want to bore people.
I just wanted to explain this issue a little bit because I imagine it
must be a little frustrating for people to know that a particular
function is available, but not understand how exactly it could be put
to use.
I seriously doubt that this bores people on this list, Rusty.
Honestly, I don't see "your" issues as very different than "our" issues:
we join clubs like this in order to explore cool and fun ways to
interact with technology.
In pursuit of "your" problem, we all can't help but learn various
fundamentals of how various *nix-related things work.