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(Unverified)Jan 26th 2008 1:22PM

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Nice article. However, I think that, especially since this article is aimed at teaching new Linux users, you should place quotes around commands so it's easy to tell what's what. For instance, in the sentence "At the risk of boring you to tears for searches you may not ever need to do, we'll direct you to man find for more complicated searches," the command "man find" is difficult to distinguish at first as being a command, both because it's not in quotes and because commands are usually lowercase, so it blends in with the rest of the sentence.

Also, when I first started using "locate" in Ubuntu, I never needed to update the database--I wasn't even aware that it existed, so I guess Ubuntu is an exception.

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