2009/7/7 John :
> Lucy wrote:
>> A good place to start IMO is http://en.flossmanuals.net/gnulinux.
>> It'll give you a gentle introduction to the command line and later on
>> starts talking about variables, etc. So you should be able to start
>> building up your own scripts.
>>
>>
> Hi Lucy, that i
Lucy wrote:
> 2009/7/6 John :
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and
>> Ubuntu Shell access? Also does anybody have any website I can look at to
>> learn shell script?
>>
>
> A good place to start IMO is http://en.flossmanuals.net/gnul
On 07/07/09 08:20, William Anderson wrote:
> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>> On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote:
>>> Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash.
>>
>> I would be surprised if the default shell is bash.
>>
>> /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Dave explained.
>>
>>
2009/7/6 John :
> Hi everybody,
>
> I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and
> Ubuntu Shell access? Also does anybody have any website I can look at to
> learn shell script?
A good place to start IMO is http://en.flossmanuals.net/gnulinux.
It'll give you a gentle intro
William Anderson wrote:
> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>> On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote:
>>> Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash.
>> I would be surprised if the default shell is bash.
>>
>> /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Dave explained.
>>
>> If you look at a user'
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote:
>> Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash.
>
> I would be surprised if the default shell is bash.
>
> /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Dave explained.
>
> If you look at a user's default shell in /etc/pass
On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote:
> Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash.
I would be surprised if the default shell is bash.
/bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Dave explained.
If you look at a user's default shell in /etc/passwd you will see most
(if not all) poin
Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash.
And when writing scripts you put the shell at the top anyway, and
that's been for me #!/bin/bash in recent history.
Therefore if writing shell scripts I believe bash is still the one you want.
Bit of history here... the original shel
Andrew Oakley wrote:
>
> Ubuntu uses Bash
> (Bourne Again Shell), but then Red Hat, Fedora, Suse and most Linux
> distributions also tend to use Bash these days.
>
Hi Andrew,
I should probably point out that Ubuntu *doesn't* use bash by default.
Ubuntu changed to "dash" some releases ago.
John wrote:
> I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and
> Ubuntu Shell access?
Not so as you'd notice.
If you get into chaining commands together (piping) or writing vaguely
advanced shell scripts, then it does matter that Ubuntu uses Bash
(Bourne Again Shell), but
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, John wrote:
> I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and
> Ubuntu Shell access? Also does anybody have any website I can look at to
> learn shell script?
There's no easy answer to that.
The basic shell is /bin/bash (the Bourne Again SHell
Hi everybody,
I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and
Ubuntu Shell access? Also does anybody have any website I can look at to
learn shell script?
Thanks
John
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