Comments on: Learning the Bash Shell https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/ Thu, 28 May 2009 20:36:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/#comment-536034 Thu, 28 May 2009 20:36:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/#comment-536034 John, you may get more out of a more advanced book. Check out “Classic SHell Scripting” here:

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/03/classic_shell_scripting.php

]]> By: John Swindle https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/#comment-536033 Thu, 28 May 2009 20:28:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/#comment-536033 I’ve been using tcsh since about 1986, when it became available on the Amiga. For years, I’ve been thinking I should learn to use Bash, just because it’s the de facto standard. I’ve been able to keep putting it off because there are enough similarities among shells that a user who’s proficient in one can figure out what to do in others. But to use Bash in the most productive manner requires attacking a learning curve. That O’Reilly book is looking more like a good idea every time I run into it.

]]> By: CyberLizard https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/#comment-536032 Thu, 28 May 2009 19:01:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/#comment-536032 Bash is the bomb.

The single most important thing I posess is my .bashrc file and my own personal bin directory of scripts I’ve collected over the years. I have a small area of working memory so I always forget where things are. So I wrote BashBM, short for BashBookMarks. It lets me just type ‘mark here’ while cd’d to a directory and then later type ‘goto here’ and it’ll take me back there.

Anyway, Bash rules. The first thing I do on any Windows system a job gives me is to install Cygwin, just so that I can have my beloved Bash, grep, sed, awk et al.

]]> By: wallace Turner https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/#comment-536031 Thu, 28 May 2009 18:00:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/28/learning-the-bash-shell-1/#comment-536031 Suck it and see …

… Experimentation always leads to the truth

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