[Nottingham] Shell programming

[Dan Mackdermott]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Robert Hart wrote:

> 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.

Better still would be to have a look at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ 
which is the 'Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide'.  It breaks down lots of the 
more interesting commands and gives examples as well.  It's a 
comprehensive guide that, at the moment, would result in 585 printed pages 
of output if you were to print the PDF at 
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf.

Cheers,

Dan

> 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...

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