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| author | Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.net> | 2011-04-13 17:01:40 -0400 |
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| committer | Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.net> | 2011-04-13 17:01:40 -0400 |
| commit | 1716bc976a1981ced2dfbebe5972f3009637631e (patch) | |
| tree | 53a87f9605246e77ff08e54d9d7e60ccf662d2f1 /chapter_04.xml | |
| parent | b2961d9ee606085fe06c5b73c6ac713f92b24d46 (diff) | |
| download | slackbook-1716bc976a1981ced2dfbebe5972f3009637631e.tar.xz | |
Just a few basic clean-ups.
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diff --git a/chapter_04.xml b/chapter_04.xml index 827b92f..8ffeec3 100644 --- a/chapter_04.xml +++ b/chapter_04.xml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ that is what this chapter is all about. <para> Your Slackware Linux system comes with lots of built-in documentation for nearly every installed application. Perhaps the most common method -of reading system documentation is by using the +of reading system documentation is <application>man</application>(1). <application>man</application> (short for manual) will bring up the included man-page for any application, system call, configuration file, or library you tell it @@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ unless the first two already existed, as you saw in the example. <para> Removing a file is as easy as creating one. The -<application>rm</application>(1) will remove a file (assuming of course +<application>rm</application>(1) command will remove a file +(assuming of course that you have permission to do this). There are a few very common arguments to <application>rm</application>. The first is <arg>-f</arg> and is used to force the removal of a file @@ -342,8 +343,7 @@ order to deal with directories. </para> <screen><prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip -r /tmp/home.zip /home</userinput> -<prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip /tmp/large_file.zip -/tmp/large_file</userinput></screen> +<prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip /tmp/large_file.zip /tmp/large_file</userinput></screen> <para> The order of the arguments is very important. The first filename must @@ -423,8 +423,8 @@ One alternative to <application>gzip</application> is the almost the exact same way. The advantage to <application>bzip2</application> is that it boasts greater compression strength. Unfortunately, achieving that greater compression is a slow -process, so <application>bzip2</application> takes longer to run than -other alternatives. +and CPU-intensive process, so <application>bzip2</application> +typicall takes much longer to run than other alternatives. </para> </section> |