On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 17:13 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > Do others here have additional shell tips and tricks? You know, the > kind of thing that you don't see others using much, so you remain > unaware of it, then when you discover it, you find it very useful, and > keep thinking about how much other people should be using it. :)
I would certainly benefit from spending a week sitting next to someone who knew what they were doing and had the time to explain. We do have a book in the library: Shell Scripting Recipes by Chris F. A. Johnson. I just scanned through it. The flavor appears to be a bit like "Software Tools" without the end product of a new language. There is an extensive collection of scripts which build on each other to expand their domain of use. My quick reaction is that you'd be better off coding these up in Perl, Python, Ruby or the like. There is not much shell theory in the book. (pipe and redirection are not in the index and my quick scan did not turn up any discussion, though they are used in examples.) Bill Stearns gave a DLSLUG presentation "100 ways to run your program" (I think that was the title) with a 61 page handout (courtesy of SANS) that was great. The talk was full of shell tips and tricks. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/