Do you have a particular physical/practical reason to remove all GUI aspects or is it a case of command line is where you came from/want to be "spiritually"... Sorry, I couldn't think of a better word.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 April 2011 14:21, Stephen Ryan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:intrench@googlemail.com">intrench@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thank you Mike and David for those references. I will give them a good lookover and a try. <br><br>I want to do Bash / Curl scripting because i have set myself a challenge to remove all GUI and Windows from my life and operate only from the command line.<br>
I want to learn http protocol programming and how to write scripts to interrogate my website and to scrape and download stats data. <br><br>I started in computer support when the very first PC was installed at the company i worked at and I kind of grew up with DOS/QEMM/Desqview, Netware, AS400 and that kind of stuff. <br>
Did a lot of network integrations with Windows/IPX/SDLC/IP/Netbios kind of stuff.<br><br>But i did not really get to involved in Unix which i really regret now. There is a kind of fear barrier there for some reason.<br><br>
I just need a command line and to try and get my head around starting to write scripts. There is so much information out there, its pretty difficult to know where to start and some of this stuff is extremely dry, so i need to get it in my head in a more creative way.<br>
<br>I will try and find some local colleges and if you know any tutors please let me know.<br><br>Cheers<br><font color="#888888">Stephen<br><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%">
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