But Larry...I did read the grep man page and I still wasn't "grep-ing"
what it was talking about. What Civileme posted was awesome!
Mark
Larry Marshall wrote:
>
> > 1. Distribution bashing attitude (this is not the same as pointing out
> > negative aspects of some distributions, but insulting people because they
> > don't use distribution X or Y)
>
> Geez, Claudio. Are you a knuckle dragger or something? Everyone
> knows you should be using distribution X :-)
>
> > 2. The RTFM attitude. There's nothing more frustrating to a newbie than
> > hearing a 'RTFM' (some of them don't even know what that means ...). If you
>
> It does wear thin when you follow the newbie conference and it's
> obvious that the guy asking the question is a Windows user who hasn't
> read a paragraph of any documentation anywhere. I think it's fair to
> suggest that you can't get into Linux (in its current form) without
> reading a book or two about Linux.
>
> > know there's a good faq or howto, just tell the newbie where to look and in
> > time he/she will learn ;c). Believe me, even a friendly "man grep" will do
>miracles.
>
> I agree. THEN you tell them to RTFM :-)
>
> Cheers --- Larry
