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Is there any way to use date with previous dates such as "2 23 2000" in order to see what day of the week it was? I tried changing the current date to "date 022300452000"
but then it told me that I...

Is there any cut or awk function that would allow me to take the last part of a path away and save the list into a file? I wrote:
find $HOME -mtime +3 > fileList

cat fileList...

thanks, I got it all figured out =)

I am trying to understand how to use awk in scripting and I thought you had to use nawk instead...however, I keep getting errors in my script that I am creatng in order to killa process by its name...

Thanks a lot! Any suggestions for beginner-friendly unix books?

I'm sorry, but the example in the man pages was no help.

I know head -5 fileName will give you the first 5 lines of the file but how do you get like the 6th-13th lines only or one line before the...

I am just beginning to learn unix and I was wondering if there was a list of all the options somewhere on the net or hidden in the man pages?

Also do options always have - and then a letter, or...