From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NNE7X-0000Xy-NH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:26:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CECB4E0739; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91D3E0739 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16] helo=sep.dynalias.net) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNE7J-0003kZ-G0 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:26:14 -0500 Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9B6D064B045; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:30:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:30:15 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway. Message-ID: <20091222233015.GD29895@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4B303B5D.2060400@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 0c5c0da3-9293-4aca-84f7-9f087c69ff6c X-Archives-Hash: 4c905cf8a28c4134f3428b905a257a7d On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:16:36AM +0000, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > On 22 Dec 2009, at 03:22, Dale wrote: >> ... I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and muddy up the >> waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gentoo >> uses? Links to a even better guide would be good too. The guide I found >> is here: >> >> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ > > The Advanced Scripting Guide is brilliant. It's my gospel when Bash > scripting, although I'll admit I haven't looked harder for anything else. > If there is any better guide out there, I would love to hear about it. I agree. For learning the ropes there's the ABS, for everything else there is the man/info pages. (Learning Bash was the reason that I learned gnu info. That one man page is just way too long.) W -- Ever stop to think, and forget to start again? Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1110 days, 22:19