server software

[Ipp]

You dont want to learn linux by starting out with a server build. Generally you want your servers to be as stable as possible and by experimenting you can kill stability and performance. Get rid of crapdows and start playen around with a client either Ubuntu, openSuSE, or Fedora Core

[themaceisback]

i have, i meant learning about servers. I have suse on a laptop and i use it alot, and i do a good amount with unix terminal.

[Ipp]

Gimme a command(1 line) to get the contents of the current directory and show their size if they do not have an extension.

No loops.

If ya can do that easily then you have worked long enough in the terminal, to move to the next step.

[Venom]

I would guess Dir. lol.. no clue.. just first thing that popped to head.

[themaceisback]

i guess you are right i didn't know off the top of my head, but after looking at the man pages i would guess ls -s, but i don't know how to do it without extensions. I think ill postpone setting it up for a while then

[Ipp]

Heres the power of the commandline, i wrote up a tutorial so check it out: Tutorial Ninjas » Blog Archive » Why Pipes Rock

'ls | xargs -n 1 du -lh | grep -v .conf' - will also go into folders(filtering out .conf)

or you could just do the grep -v ontop of your ls -s.

[Venom]

Yeah, I don't think I care that much to learn linux and type all that out everytime I want to do that.. I'd rather just use a mouse and go through a few folders.

[themaceisback]

i knew about pipe and grep, but i couldn't find the exclusion option for grep when looking through the man pages.