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  • I ran it as my primary distro on my main machine for a while way back when. I don’t recommend that.

    What I do recommend is going though the entire process even if it’s just in a VM. It’s incredibly educational and will teach you a ton about Linux and OS construction in general. I used to recommend it to everyone I was teaching linux/ Unix too and all the students who actually went through it and completed it now have successful IT careers. 100% an incredibly valuable teaching resource, you will look at all OS’s with new eyes after you’ve built one bit by bit from source by hand.
















  • I have never interpreted this as making fun of Rick Astley, just a stupid joke to trick people into watching something. I totally agree, he is very talented.

    The meme has been a huge benefit to him as well, his popularity skyrocketed with a generation that wasn’t around when he was first popular and led to tons of listens and sales of his music, heck they even had him play at the Macy’s day parade!

    As I recall, I read an interview with him, and he didn’t quite understand the meme, but he was thrilled it had blown up his popularity again and introduced so many new people to his music.





  • Lydia_K@startrek.websitetoLinux@lemmy.mlIs anyone using awk?
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    11 months ago

    I use awk all the time, nothing too fancy, but when you need to pull out elements of text it’s usually way easier than using cut.

    awk {’ print $3 '} will pull the third element based on your IFS variable (internal field separater, default is whitespace)

    awk {’ print $NF ‘} gets you the last element, and awk {’ print $(NF-1) '} gets you one element from the last, and so on.

    Basic usage but so fast and easy for so many everyday command line things.