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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@infinitylimited.net>
  To  : Hawkins, Justin <justin.hawkins@eds.com>
  Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:22:16 +0930

Re: Bash Shell Scriping resource?

you think? I hate the perl doc. Sure its split up, but its layout is
worse. I like the PHP style of doco.


"Hawkins, Justin" wrote:
> 
> 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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