On Mon, 05 May 2003 08:55:13 -0500, Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:27 PM 5/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: >> the upgrades through a network, if I were inclined to use them. I trust >> these tools, they are efficient and painless. On the Windoze side, I've >> heard of 500MB service packs, is that true? Yet they fail to fix all >> the bugs and they never can do as good a job as the distributed effort >> of free software. > > $ ncftpls -l ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/ | \ > > awk 'BEGIN { X=0 } { X=X+$5 } END { print X } ' > 423031617 > > $ ncftpls -l ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/ | \ > > awk 'BEGIN { X=0 } { X=X+$5 } END { print X } ' > 137523201 smartass ;) -- John Hebert System Engineer I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com
