ohh yea, I forgot about all the hours I spent
after learning exactly what the /bin /sbin and 
/*/bin /*/sbin directories were for I spent many
a day doing

$ ls a* <enter>
$ man <first in list>
$ man <second in list>
$ man <.....last in list>
$ ls b*
$ ..........

Ohhh the days :)

Bill Warner

On 05 Sep 2001 06:09:41 -0700, Ken Bowley wrote:
> All the comments so far have been great!  The only one I would add is an
> ancient secret of hard core geeks....
> 
> Read the man pages!
> 
> It takes a long time, but go through the sbin and bin directories, and
> read the man page for every program you can find.  There will be a few
> that don't have man pages, but then you can always attempt the --help
> approach to getting information.
> 
> On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 09:13, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> > Hello, I need to systematically learn linux. I know enough to be dangerous 
> > now.  What if any certification course gives the best overall linux 
> > education.  The primary objective is learning. If it leads to a 
> > certification, so much the better but learning is the key. 
> > 
> > I prefer to work on my own but am not totaly against going to a school. 
> > 
> > I currently administer 2 apache web servers and 1 server for sendmail and 
> > file sharing with samba. All my learning to date has been of the 3AM need to 
> > have it working by 8am panic variety, so I know a little of this, a little of 
> > that but no overall systematic view.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Charlie
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