[Sussex] modem connection

[Tony Austin]

> Hi Geoff
>
> The list seems to be getting a bit livelier these days!
>
> <Geoff Teale said>
>>
>>Yeah.. you'll find the UNIX command line is a tad more functional than
>>the DOS one.
>>
>
> Q. I am working between several terminal windows and want to cut and paste
> between them.  I am using MORE, LESS and SCRIPT to capture stuff, then
> using
> NANO to edit - I would be grateful if you could also reccomend any other
> editors I could be using.
>

vi (or vim) is good but has a fairly long learning curve (the rest of your
life).  I think it's worth learning as it does a lot - including syntax
hightlighting.

> Q. I am also not quite sure what #!/ means at the start of bash scripts.
> Isnt # a comment marker?
>

In the first line of a script #!/bin/bash says to use bash to interpret
the script; #!/usr/bin/perl would be used to run a perl script

> Ta
>
> --
> Angelo Servini


Regards.

Tony Austin
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