On Oct 16, 2011, at 9:14 PM, trout swim wrote: > hello > i have looked at the FAQ in Macports and in the wiki and have yet to see any > prerequisites for a persons knowledge base and that persons ability to work > with the Bash command line or conditional programming. > In the last few years while i have self taught in the http document mark up > and dynamic aspects in PHP, MySQL, and some Javascript i have come to see a > lot of screaming "help me" in forums as well as a lot of miss leading dog`y > do. > I have a few books in the Mac area of Unix, but i see it all boils down to > the shell. either bash or korn or any other that i cannot remember at this > time of writing. > I have found the GNU web page http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/bash.html and > i am studying that. > > So if there were any prerequisites written some where in relationship to the > Macports project would those prerequisites boil down to being comfortable > with simple commands and complex commands using a host of predefined command > line characters in conjunction with supporting options and any and all of the > characters and their pre defined uses.
I believe "sudo" and "port" are the only required commands for a standard MacPorts install. "man" can be useful command for a quick reference to the "port" command syntax. $ man port Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
