How to pass RHCE/RHCT exam! – part 4

This post will be related to the use of grep, sed, and awk to process text streams and files.

GREP

Is a command searches a file for lines containing a match to the given strings and prints the matching lines.
It is mainly used in the following combinations:

grep 'some string'  given_file
cat given_file | grep 'some string'
command | grep 'some string'

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How to pass RHCE/RHCT exam! – part 3

Today we’re going to focus on how to use standard command line tools (e.g. ls, cp, mv, rm, tail, cat, etc.) to create, remove, view, and investigate files and directories. If you are a beginner, the first thing I suggest is to check the current directory to avoid messing up things. This is simply done …

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PPPoE Server – How To Do It Yourself

Today I noticed that one of my neighbors is using my wireless connection. One way to forbid him from using my really low bandwidth internet connection would be to encrypt the wireless connection, but that will also affect the transfer speed between the computers connected to the LAN and my cheap router will fail at …

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Quick guide to Microsoft Windows 7 versions

The Christmas season is fast approaching and a lot of people are thinking about buying or upgrading their PCs. But most people seem to forget that they also need an OS on their new system and looking at the Microsoft Windows 7 versions list it can get very confusing sometimes.

So, I decided to make a post specially dedicated to the people who don’t really know what the best Windows version for their needs is.

Some of you might say that the choice is very simple, just buy the one with the most features, but you see, that has it’s drawbacks. Most of the features you, as a normal everyday user, will probably never use and have also probably never heard about them or know what they do.  

You also need to consider the fact that all those extra features add extra services to the OS witch have to be started every time you use your system and that of course eats up a lot of resources witch you could use elsewhere.
The Christmas season is fast approaching and a lot of people are thinking about buying or upgrading their PCs. But most people seem to forget that they also need an OS on their new system and looking at the Microsoft Windows 7 versions list it can get very confusing sometimes.

So, I decided to make a post specially dedicated to the people who don’t really know what the best Windows version for their needs is.

Some of you might say that the choice is very simple, just buy the one with the most features, but you see, that has it’s drawbacks. Most of the features you, as a normal everyday user, will probably never use and have also probably never heard about them or know what they do.  

You also need to consider the fact that all those extra features add extra services to the OS witch have to be started every time you use your system and that of course eats up a lot of resources witch you could use elsewhere.

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