Learning bash

I am learning bash from Carl Albing, JP Vossen, and Cameron Newham’s “bash Cookbook” from O’Reilly Media. (ISBN: 978-0-596-52678-8)

Micro-blogging? No, Twitter is not coming my way. I just wanted the world to know that I am finally been conviced to learn the command line-thingy.

Expect a useless bash-script section soon!

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2 comments

So Daniel…how's it going? Have you started reading the bash Cookbook yet? I'd like to hear what you think - what you're learning, what you need to know…ya know–feedback. — Carl (the author)

Comment by Carl Albing (Subscribed) at 2008-06-09 @730.

Hi Carl, and thanks for commenting!

I have not finished yet. (I always read cover-to-cover.) So far I have learned that bash is much more powerful than I ever had imagined. I will probably be using bash a lot more from now on.

There is one thing I am missing. There is nothing, not even a mentioning, of how to best use bash complimentary with a graphical user interface. I was actually expecting to find something about using bash together with for instance KDE. At least I expected that it would be mentioned. (I do not know why, but I use bash alongside KDE. I just imagine I would get some tips on how to best use them together.)

Regarding the tip at the bottom of page 78: Why do you not advice users to simply use namespaces in their environmental variables? Simply advicing users to set variables as $myprogram:ZIP would have avoided the problem altogether.

…and Carl, did you find my blog post by searching for the ISBN or the title of your book?

Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2008-06-09 @763.