[Nottingham] Shell programming

[Robert Hart]

There are always things that are useful that you either haven't heard
of, or have forgotten.

I just rediscovered "seq" which has saved me no end of time.

Best bet is to have a look through the output of "help" (in bash) and
"ls /bin" and make sure you have some idea what everything does.
Then pick something random out of "/usr/bin" everyday and see what it
can do.

Rob

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 14:53 +0000, Roger Light wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I want a generic shell programming book for my lab here at work. A bit 
> of sed/awk, anything else useful. Can anybody recommend something? I 
> don't just want the sed/awk book from O'Reilly :)
> 
> On a related note - are there any commands you use that are very useful 
> but might not be well known? I'm sure there must be things I haven't 
> come across that are really handy. I remember when I hadn't heard of tee 
> for instance...
> 
> Cheers and have a good Christmas,
> 
> Roger
> 
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