Just a quick reminder, with Jamal and Elf getting the FLOSS manuals on their sites, especially wrapped up for blind readers, there is a great book on the GNU/Linux command line where you can do a bazillion interesting things without actually writing programs. Some more complex activities will require shell scripting but that is little more than putting a bunch of command line instructions into a file in the order you want to run them.
The command line book, though, pretty much assumes that you are using bash and I'm uncertain about documentation for ksh but I'd bet you can find a lot of good stuff online.
cdh On 07/29/2010 08:31 AM, Øyvind Lode wrote:
You can also change the shell yourself. You don't need the root password or a sys. admin Smile! The below command assumes that ksh is installed in /bin/ksh. If the ksh package is not installed you'll need root privileges to install it. Or use sudo/sudoers if available. Execute the following command to change your login shell: $ chsh -s /bin/ksh -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26 Sent: 29. juli 2010 14:20 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Learning What I Need To Know About Basic Linux Importance: Low If you like ksh, a system administrator when they set up your account can have your account come up in ksh for you. Linux has several different shells available to the user, Linux isn't Windows. Even if your account is set up with a different shell at first, you ought to be able to get your sysadmin to fix that for you. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay Macarty Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:46 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Learning What I Need To Know About Basic Linux Jim, I find myself in somewhat the same boat just recently. I have just been informed that we are switching all our HP/UX environments over to Suse linux. While I have been asured that I can continue to use Tera Term for my SSH sessions, I know there are going to be some differences between the KSH shell I am used to and whatever shell linux is using. So, I will be jumping into some linux book or books myself shortly. We use Weblogic instead of Apache but still I need to learn how to manage the Weblogic environment under linuyx right away. So, while I don't as yet have any suggestions, I will certainly be following this thread closely. ----- Original Message ----- From: Homme, James<mailto:james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:36 AM Subject: Learning What I Need To Know About Basic Linux Hi, On the system I'm using, I don't have the authority to administrate the operating system, but I do have the authority, and need to, administrate the other software on the box that doesn't come with it, so I need to come up to speed yesterday. You know how that is. I cracked open the book called Learning The Unix Operating System Fifth Edition and started using it to learn basic commands. Among other things, two things are tripping me up. First, I'm using Putty. I have it set up properly with JAWS, but I'm being driven crazy any time data needs to scroll the screen because the whole screen is being spoken. The second thing has to do with knowing what I need to learn. I'm just trying to learn what I need to know for now, and branching out from there. Unfortunately, I'm not sure exactly what all that entales. But fortunately, I do have some time, because we're just starting to use MySQL and PHP. So I see three big tasks or things to learn. * What's involved in administrating Apache, like not letting the logs get too big, possibly installing a friendly statistics package, or whatever. * Setting up daily backups of the changed MySQL database or databases that we have. * Whatever MySQL administration that I have no earthly idea I may need to do. * I'll have to upgrade MySQL at some point. * I'll have to upgrade PHP at some point. * I pray that I never have to upgrade Apache. * Possibly installing some nice, convenient packages like PHPMyAdmin. But I'm thinking that like the people who were advocating learning the dirty way, I think it's best to probably learn how to do it from command lines so that I have total control and really know what's going on. But I'm starting with basic commands, but at the same time, trying to do my first Drupal installation, and I'm in real trouble because of course there's this deadline. Back to my UNIX book. Specifically, I didn't see in the book two things. First, what permissions do files and directories automatically get when you create them? Second, I used to know a little more about some sort of file in my home directory that I could put stuff in to customize the environment a little more. I know that that file has a name that starts with a period. Yet another thing. I'm pretty sure that the shell I'm using is called the bash shell, but I don't know how to find out. And how does that affect how I work with the system? For example, if there's another shell that's better, what is it, what does better mean, and how to I turn it on. Like I was thinking of making aliases for cp and rm that automatically run the -i option to keep myself from trashing stuff. 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