Hi,
The subject says it all. After a few years of writing scripts the quick and dirty way, I've decided to take the plunge and learn Bash correctly, using the O'Reilly Bash Cookbook. I'm currently looking for the right place to ask questions, but curiously enough, Google searches about "bash forum" result in nothing conclusive. I took a peek in the corresponding USENET newsgroup, but there seems to be close to no activity.
Any suggestions for that?
Cheers,
Niki
On 09/05/2009 08:43 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
The subject says it all. After a few years of writing scripts the quick and dirty way, I've decided to take the plunge and learn Bash correctly, using the O'Reilly Bash Cookbook. I'm currently looking for the right place to ask questions, but curiously enough, Google searches about "bash forum" result in nothing conclusive. I took a peek in the corresponding USENET newsgroup, but there seems to be close to no activity.
Any suggestions for that?
Not sure about a mailing list or group ... but I thought I would post this resource. It is where I go when I want to find bash info:
Johnny Hughes a écrit :
Not sure about a mailing list or group ... but I thought I would post this resource. It is where I go when I want to find bash info:
This is the other resource I'm using besides the book. But I'm specifically looking for a place to ask questions when there's something I can't figure out with the documentation.
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Not sure about a mailing list or group ... but I thought I would post this resource. It is where I go when I want to find bash info:
This is the other resource I'm using besides the book. But I'm specifically looking for a place to ask questions when there's something I can't figure out with the documentation.
I'm not quite sure I see the point of using esoteric bash features. There's a place for widely portable bourne-shell syntax, and a place for simple things that you can do with text substitutions and i/o redirection, but if you need more than that, why not just switch to perl or another more capable (and perhaps even more portable) language?
I find that the people at LinuxQuestions are always able to help me if I need some scripting help and the list can't come to my rescue (http://www.linuxquestions.org/)
James ;)
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:43:11PM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
The subject says it all. After a few years of writing scripts the quick and dirty way, I've decided to take the plunge and learn Bash correctly, using the O'Reilly Bash Cookbook. I'm currently looking for the right place to ask questions, but curiously enough, Google searches about "bash forum" result in nothing conclusive. I took a peek in the corresponding USENET newsgroup, but there seems to be close to no activity.
I often see bash-specific questions in comp.unix.shell.
--keith
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 09:43, Niki Kovacscontact@kikinovak.net wrote:
The subject says it all. After a few years of writing scripts the quick and dirty way, I've decided to take the plunge and learn Bash correctly, using the O'Reilly Bash Cookbook. I'm currently looking for the right place to ask questions, but curiously enough, Google searches about "bash forum" result in nothing conclusive. I took a peek in the corresponding USENET newsgroup, but there seems to be close to no activity.
Any suggestions for that?
I would say I think this list is quite appropriate for that. In fact, we've seen far more off-topic discussion here than that... Not that I think bash is off-topic here, actually I would say most or at least a large part of users in this list are sysadmins and bash is an intrinsic part of our daily interactions with Linux, in this case, with CentOS...
Cheers, Filipe
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