On 9/21/2010 9:43 PM, Robert Marma wrote: > > Hi all, > > I appreciate the advice and encouragement that all of you have offered me at > this time, while I am learning to navigate through openSUSE. I have decided > that, apart from normal, daily housekeeping tasks like file copying, writing > letters, and web browsing--all of which I can accomplish with the Gnome > desktop--I should attempt to concentrate on learning Bash commands
I find bash rather strange and the syntax at odds with other programming languages I've met. If you want to learn a really handy general purpose language for writing scripts, I'd strongly recommend Perl. Jim
