[ale] moving to the command line

[Matt Shade]

My favorite has been the Osborne book 'Unix, 
System V, Release 4, AnIntroduction'. It gives plenty of examples and covers 
not just a single unixdistribution, but aix, hpux, linux, etc. Comes in 
handy for me.I also keep a nice selection of web sites for different shell 
programmingexamples, because I can't remember sed and awk to save my life. 
Here's agood one for sed commands -<A 
href="http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/sed.html"><FONT 
size=3>http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/sed.html<FONT 
size=3>I keep a text file handy with things I've picked up, for example I 
haveabout 10 ways to do recursive mv's to change a whole group of 
file'sextensions (*.foo to *.bar) depending on whether I'm in the bash 
shell,k-shell, or if I want to use a perl script or something.I also 
keep another text file full of specific commands I use for somethings like 
checking samba status, or grepping apache logs for specificaddresses or 
characters. I wouldn't have to do that so much, except Imaintain several 
disparate operating systems, and on one I may 
use/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient and another may be 
/opt/samba/bin/smbclient(that's a simple example, but there get to be a lot 
of differences). Anotheris df vs bdf (linux vs 
hpux).matt----- Original Message -----From: "Bruce L. 
Bryant" <<FONT 
size=3>bbryant at alltel.net>To: <<A 
href="mailto:ale at ale.org">ale at ale.org<FONT 
size=3>>Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 09:34Subject: [ale] moving to 
the command line> Hello all.> I have a question that I 
hope will be of some value to all.> I have been running Linux (currently 
Slack 8.0) for +2 years. I> would like to (as much as possible) 
completely ditch the GUI. To this end> I have purchased a not 
inconsiderable stack of manuals, mostly O'reilly> stuff as well as my 
current favorite, "Think Unix" by John Lasser.> Now, I have played with 
the info in these fine manuals and have> foundthe answers to many of my 
questions. However, I have noticed that> most of them isolate on one 
thing in detail. I was wondering if anyone has> written a manual for the 
newbie aimed at helping them make a fairly rapid> transition to a command 
line only computing experience.> I realize that the correct answer to 
this question is "RTFM". But,> what about those of us who would like to 
start with fairly simple stuff> because of limited time? I would prefer 
to continue to read man pages and> manuals and find the stuff out by 
experimenting as I find this much more> interesting than being spoon-fed. 
However, I would like to be capable of> doing more at the command line, 
now.> Any suggestions?> Thanks in advance.> Bruce (IM: 
bb207)