Re: Command Line Documentation
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:29:38 -0500
re: "born again shell"
I like it. When I was working I was an intensive korn shell user. Now I'm
still using the windows straight jacket, but I have MinGW on my xp box. No
wonder my ksh commands seem to work in bash.
--le
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From: Chris Hofstader
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Command Line Documentation
Ancient GNU Lore:
When Brian Fox (bfox) first set out to start working on a shell, those that
were most popular were the c shell, the Korn shell and the Bourne shell. The
GNU goal was to include virtually all of the features in the other three. Thus,
it was named, "Born Again Shell" or bash for short. That was about 25 years ago
when I hung around GNU fixing bugs and the like.
cdh
On Mar 30, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Homme, James wrote:
Hi,
Bash? Sounds violent. I better not teach that to my kids. <grin>
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Storm Dragon
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:19 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Command Line Documentation
Hi,
Sounds great. I am gonna have to teach bash to my kids, and this sounds
like a useful tool. Please send it my way.
Thanks
Storm
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On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 08:52 -0400, Chris Hofstader wrote:
Hi, Project GNU has published a book on using the command line in UNIX like
operating systems. It is based on bash, which is pretty well the standard shell
these days. It starts assuming that the user knows nothing and teaches commands
like ls but then moves into more complicated subjects. I can send a PDF to
anyone who wants it and it can be converted to text for people who prefer that.
It can be posted it on any of the web sites where people on this list have
other docs as long as it has its license attached. So, who wants it? Happy
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