Tips and Tricks

Change the configuration in ~/.Xdefaults XTerm*Background:   black XTerm*Foreground:   linen XTerm*font:  9x15 XTerm*saveLines:    1000 XTerm*HiForeColor: white XTerm*HiBackColor: #c06077 #XTerm*geometry: +50+100 XTerm*geometry: 173x52+10+10 xterm*font: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

awk - splits a line based on space as a delimiter [root@:/usr/local] $ ls -al | grep games drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Aug  8  2008 games [root@:/usr/local] $ ls -al | grep games | awk '{print $9}' games