I wrote a tutorial on grep back in February. If you need more than the tiniest of explanations as to what grep is, I suggest you run over to my introductory tutorial. The quick and dirty intro, though, is that grep is mostly used to strip information out of a text file.
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Although they have been around for quite a while, I’ve never talked about them here. In my illustrious career, I’ve owned a few USB drives; however, my most recent purchase is lighter, cheaper, and faster than any one I’ve owned before.
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A couple of days ago I got my hands on a copy of Rome: Total War from Creative Assembly. Being a strategy game of conquering the world, it appealed to my political nature. Rome: Total War follows in a series of games from Shogun and Medieval: Total War. I never played the first two in the series, and from what I was told, it’s a daunting task to take on this one without having played the first two. Nonetheless, excepting the learning curve (which is steep), it’s a fun game.
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