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awk specifying multiple field separators

I want to extract the text "Windows 2008" sandwiched between [VM STORE] and "/Windows 2008.vmx" So I need two field separators ] for the left and / for the right. So for awk I use "[]/]" as the argument to -F. Then I need to trim the spaces using sed. echo "32 EDI...

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OpenSuse 11.4 on HP Mini 110 – It works!

Talk about drama free install. Download the KDE LIVE ISO http://mirror.optus.net/opensuse/distribution/11.4/iso/openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso dd if=openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sde bs=8M Where /dev/sde is my 4GB USB Key. Press F10 on the HP Mini 110...

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Upgrade your network it will save you time!

Today I fired up VMWare convertor to move a 60GB Virtual Machine running as a guest on VMWare Server 2.0 on my workstation accross to a VMWare ESXi server. I kicked the process off and it guestimated the time to completion as 8hrs and 44 minutes. Hmmm... Then after...

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