From 1716bc976a1981ced2dfbebe5972f3009637631e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Hicks Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:01:40 -0400 Subject: Just a few basic clean-ups. --- chapter_04.xml | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter_04.xml') 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. 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 man(1). man (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. Removing a file is as easy as creating one. The -rm(1) will remove a file (assuming of course +rm(1) command will remove a file +(assuming of course that you have permission to do this). There are a few very common arguments to rm. The first is -f and is used to force the removal of a file @@ -342,8 +343,7 @@ order to deal with directories. darkstar:~$ zip -r /tmp/home.zip /home -darkstar:~$ zip /tmp/large_file.zip -/tmp/large_file +darkstar:~$ zip /tmp/large_file.zip /tmp/large_file The order of the arguments is very important. The first filename must @@ -423,8 +423,8 @@ One alternative to gzip is the almost the exact same way. The advantage to bzip2 is that it boasts greater compression strength. Unfortunately, achieving that greater compression is a slow -process, so bzip2 takes longer to run than -other alternatives. +and CPU-intensive process, so bzip2 +typicall takes much longer to run than other alternatives. -- cgit v1.2.3