On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:07 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 14:19 -0400, Kyle Gonzales wrote: >> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> > >> > My bash skills improved the most when involved with Gentoo. Aside from >> > Python, Gentoo's portage relies heavily on BASH. Any Gentoo ebuild is a >> > glorified bash script ;) >> As are the init scripts for just about every Linux distribution out >> there. > > Going one step further, just about everything related to init is done > via scripting. Once the kernel is done booting, and init takes over, it > uses a shell and scripts for all the rest of the magic to take place. > >> If no one else wants to present, I might be able to put together a >> presentation on Bash scripting, > > That would be great, but three in a row? Probably best I or another > steps up, though its really up to the group. Topics at the moment seem > to be an into Bash or C the GNU way :) > >> tho honestly, buying and reading the "Learning the Bash shell" book >> from OReilly would be better for most people. > > Bash is probably a safe topic to buy a book on. I am very skeptical of > buying books. Having spent tons of money on them over the years. Having > shelves full of books covering out dated technologies. With the book not > having any value even to paper shredding companies.... > > That said there is a ton of stuff covering bash on-line just the same. > Much easier to copy and paste code from online examples, than to re-type > from a book. Unless it comes with media, which isn't as common as it > used to be. Another thing I have a useless pile off, outdated cd's that > came with the now outdated books ;) > > Unless the book can serve as a reference for years to come, and not be > outdated. Or if I really need it for some certification or reason. I try > to not buy books as much as possible. Maybe a Kindle (made of plastic > which comes from oil) some day to save trees :) >
Bill, I've done some scripting lately that I can share with the group for some real life application. I've put together some scripts for automating heterogeneous backups as well as a couple other applications. Rob. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
