Hey jan,

ping -c "?" 192.168.1.1

#!/bin/bash ping -c $1 192.168.1.1 ^^ $1 $2 $3 are the commandline parameters given to the script - Patrick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 18 January 2007 06:58, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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man bash is probably a good start for you too.

Perhaps. Perhaps not. I'm all for documentation, of course (and for reading it), but BASH is pretty complicated and probably a gentler introduction is in order for someone who is so near the beginning of their learning curve on shell scripting. A Google search for "BASH Tutorial" gets many hits, not surprisingly.

dominique

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On Thursday 18 January 2007 07:22, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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A Google search for "BASH Tutorial" gets many hits, not surprisingly.

Better recommendations would perhaps be: Rute abs-guide

By which I guess you mean these: - Rute http://rute.2038bug.com/ http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz (browse) http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2 (download) http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/rute.pdf.bz2 - abs-guide ("Advanced BASH Scripting Guide") http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf

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On Thursday 18 January 2007 05:22, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Randall R Schulz [01-18-07 10:10]:

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On Thursday 18 January 2007 06:58, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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man bash is probably a good start for you too.

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

I'm all for documentation, of course (and for reading it), but BASH is pretty complicated and probably a gentler introduction is in order for someone who is so near the beginning of their learning curve on shell scripting.

A Google search for "BASH Tutorial" gets many hits, not surprisingly.

Better recommendations would perhaps be: Rute abs-guide

Thanks, Jerome

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