[TriLUG] good newbie book

[Ed Hill]

Mike Broome wrote:

>
> That's pretty much sums up what I ended up writing.  Plus being able to
> pass in a string to search for and a list of files (or a glob) to search
> over.  Then I added some status messages so you knew it was actually
> doing something (since it takes a looong time to grub through all the
> RPMs on a 2x CDROM on a P100).  When I started trying to build up a list



Yuk, a P100?  Boxes are *cheap* and as others pointed out you'll 

have a *much* nicer Linux experience (and waste a lot less time!) 

if you can locate some hw that isn't old enough to attend kinder-

garden.


;-)

Ed

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