Charles Obler said the following on 02/24/2010 05:35 PM:
Ken, thanks for explaining. I wish I had more time to learn all this stuff.
Istvan
Here's a terrific bash tutorial.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
It's one of my favorite tutorials. Bash is a surprisingly powerful language, and it's fun to code in.
That's a great tutorial, Charles! I love that introduction: <quote> A working knowledge of shell scripting is essential to anyone wishing to become reasonably proficient at system administration, even if they do not anticipate ever having to actually write a script. Consider that as a Linux machine boots up, it executes the shell scripts in /etc/rc.d to restore the system configuration and set up services. A detailed understanding of these startup scripts is important for analyzing the behavior of a system, and possibly modifying it. The craft of scripting is not hard to master, since the scripts can be built in bite-sized sections and there is only a fairly small set of shell-specific operators and options [1] to learn. The syntax is simple and straightforward, similar to that of invoking and chaining together utilities at the command line, and there are only a few "rules" governing their use. Most short scripts work right the first time, and debugging even the longer ones is straightforward. </quote> Istvan, you say you don't have time to learn? Well I think you don't have time NOT to. Its not as if you have to learn it ALL at once, like some languages I could mention. (One of my hates of Mandriva was that so much of the admin stuff was done in Perl and geared for Gnome.) -- Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. -- Henry Kissinger -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org