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  From: Hawkins, Justin <justin.hawkins@eds.com>
  To  : Jake Hawkes <jake@infinitylimited.net>, Dale Long <jake@infinitylimited.net>
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:55:35 +0930

RE: Bash Shell Scriping resource?

The bash man page is one of the worst examples for showing the usefulness or
man pages; it's tremendously long and thus it's often difficult to find
pertinent information in it. They would do well to take the bash page and
split it up into several, as perl does.

But yes, in general, the man pages do have what you need. Even bash :-)

Searching is an art form, make no mistake.

	- Justin

-----Original Message-----
From: Jake Hawkes [mailto:jake@infinitylimited.net]
Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2000 14:26
To: Dale Long
Cc: Darryl Ross; LinuxSA
Subject: Re: Bash Shell Scriping resource?


Dale Long wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Darryl Ross wrote:
> > Hey All,
> > I'm after a really good source of information about shell scripting, in
> > particular, for bash, preferably a website.
> > I want to know what all those switches for `if` do, etc etc.
> 
> A HOW-TO on bash was only recently announced or updated on freshmeat.net.
> You might want to do a search there as well as on one of the Linux
> documentation sites/mirrors.
> 
honestly, I find the man page all I need. You just have to hang in there
and get familiar with where to look.

Sometimes people get to the 4th page of the man page and give up, when
actually the stuff you'd be looking for (builtin commands) are *way*
down there.

Mr. Newall may or may not agree with this, but I think the bash man page
is OK.
--
Jake Hawkes B.Eng, (CSE)

"I'm only smart enough to know how stupid I am", Joe Strummer.

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