There are times when you will want to trim some information from the output of a command. This may be because you want to feed that output into another command. Whatever the reason for wanting to manipulate the output, awk is one of many tools available in GNU/Linux to perform this task.
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Edit: Oct. 2, 2010 – I’ve written a new post that shows a bash one-liner command that will remove the old kernels from your system in one step. You can check it out here. If you’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for a while, then you probably have a number of Linux kernel updates that have …
Continue reading Remove Old Kernels in UbuntuThe web has been abuzz this week with the news that Google has released an early version of their new Chrome OS. This early version is actually the open source Chromium OS. If you really want to get a feel for this new operating system, you can follow the directions on the Chromium OS site …
Continue reading Use The Chrome OS Start PageIn Part 1 of How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu I showed you some of the steps required to get Ubuntu ready for a fresh installation of WordPress to use for web development. In Part 2 I’ll go through the steps of installing WordPress itself. First, you need to download the latest version of WordPress. …
Continue reading How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu: Part 2In this first part of How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu, I’m going to show some of the things you need to do to prepare your system for the actual WordPress installation. I’ll cover the steps of installing WordPress itself in Part 2. Install LAMP LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, php. This is the …
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