[CLUE-Cert] Sys Admin Test

[Sean LeBlanc]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:52:19 -0600
Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at home.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, the voucher DIDN'T work for me. I gave the
> number I received via email, and the (rather rude) person
> on the other end of the line told me that the status on that
> number was either expired or used. I ended up just paying the
> full amount rather than waiting until I could sign up for
> another voucher that may or may not work. Hopefully, it works
> better for others...

I wanted to give an update on the voucher issue. I wrote
Sair about this, and a rep from there wrote me back (quite
quickly, I might add):

 You have my deepest apologies. The voucher that you were issued has already
 been used. You can rest assured that any vouchers that you receive in the
 future will not meet with the same results. The small glitch that caused
 this unique occurrence has been resolved.
 While we are unable to correct the situation with this exam, we can help
 with the next exam. As an apology for our mistake, I have sent you a 100%
 voucher number for your next Sair Linux and GNU exam. The
 following information was used to send the voucher.


Now that's the kind of service I can deal with! :)
At least some people at Sair, and maybe all of them, are stand-up guys.



> 
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:00:14 -0600
> Lynn Danielson <lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us> wrote:
> > Michael James Robbert wrote:
> > > 
> > > ... Then the \; is just escaping the ; that is required after the command.
> > > 
> > > Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> > > > I took the test today, and squeaked by with an 80%. 
> > 
> > Congratulations, Sean!  How did the voucher work for you?
> > 
> > > > some syntax I'm not familiar with. One of the questions
> > > > dealt with a command like this:
> > > >
> > > > find / -name core -exec rm -f{}\;
> > > >
> > > > I think I understand the first part, although I've never
> > > > used the -exec flag with find. But the {}\; is what I
> > > > don't understand. I might have the syntax incorrect: it's
> > > > possible there was a space after rm -f and before the last
> > 
> > Yeah, I think a space is needed between -f and {}.  I believe 
> > you need to escape the final semicolon so that you can use
> > semicolons to pass multiple commands to find with the -exec 
> > argument.  Alternatively, you can quote the semicolon.
> > 
> > A variation which I tend to prefer to find's exec switch is 
> > to pipe find to xargs, e.g.,
> > 
> > find / -name core | xargs rm -f 
> > 
> > The xargs command is also supposed to be able to use the
> > {} symbols to indicate argument substitution, but I haven't
> > been able to get this feature to work.
> > 
> > Lynn
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