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 1NP1No-0001ZU-Fu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:14:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2277BE09A4 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6582E04C1 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 763F467D18 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:15:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.711 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.711 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.112, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uEcIDupufUcl for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:15:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE44F1B4083 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NP0SZ-0006Ye-Hm for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:15:31 +0100 Received: from wsip-98-172-53-88.no.no.cox.net ([98.172.53.88]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:15:31 +0100 Received: from boxcars by wsip-98-172-53-88.no.no.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:15:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway. Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:09:45 -0600 Organization: none Message-ID: <20091227150945.533a4c39@bellgrove.remarqs.net> References: <4B303B5D.2060400@gmail.com> <20091222183353.451abda9@bellgrove.remarqs.net> <4B354889.2040903@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=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wsip-98-172-53-88.no.no.cox.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4dce9453-3bf9-4a27-bccc-babbed112a3a X-Archives-Hash: 71e4edcd9fdad37a92da51c45ecebd1c On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:19:37 -0600 Dale wrote: > =C2=BBQ=C2=AB wrote: > > It's current and it's fine for Gentoo. It's in the portage tree as > > app-doc/abs-guide, in case you want a local copy. >=20 > I'm installing this and will give it a read when I get some free > time. I hope this will not be to long. I'd forgotten about this, but drobbins wrote a series of three "Bash by Example" articles almost ten years ago, and the first two cover a lot of the fundamental stuff. I found them useful when I was starting out. (Heh, I'm not sure I'm done starting out.) Some of the Gentoo-specific things in the third article aren't true any more, for example, "Bash is an essential component of the Gentoo Linux ebuild system." --=20 =C2=BBQ=C2=AB Kleeneness is next to G=C3=B6delness.