Sutanu k Ghose wrote: > > >Yes I think "Linux for Comand line" etc. would be of great help for > new users + if a short list of Linux termnology & their meaning like > "awk" "groff"& such others could be added it would be eaiser for > nontechies to use Linux >
If only people would stop thinking of themselves as non-techies, the battle for making Linux acceptable to all would be more than half won! I surely would like to advocate using `Linux from the command line'! Alright, I shall take that up as my first writing project for ilug-cal. `awk' is a data manipulation language along the lines of perl. It lets you look for patterns among the data in a file and act upon them. You have a column of numbers that you want to find the mean of? Awk can do that in a jiffy. Want to interchange two columns in a file? No problem, one line of awk does it. Want to create a mailing list for all your printed letters? Do it with awk. `groff' (also known as `troff' on generic Unix systems) is a text processing program. For one thing, it is what the `man' command uses to display `man' pages on your Linux system. For another, it is much used for writing technical reports and books since it allows flexible creation of tables and figures. It can also be used for "non-techie" purposes like writing letters -- I use it that way all the time. - Manas Laha -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
