On Thursday 03 October 2002 12:23 pm, Manas Laha wrote: > 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
Thanks a ship load Manas Regds Sutanu -- 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
