[K12OSN] OT: Bash help

[Dan Young]

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html

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On 11/21/07, Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote:
> Ummm...Les, you wouldn't happen to have one of them old books lay'n
> about would ya? ;)
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> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Peter Hartmann wrote:
> >> Oh...my...god, that was easy!
> >>
> >>> No substitute for experience. My
> >>> hat's off to you Les. I'm glad you're on this list.
> >>
> >>  Here Here, thank you both!  I was searching for that in google too.
> >> My searchers were something like, 'append to another file bash '.  I
> >> didn't find anything.  Plus my natural tendency is to think, "nah,
> >> that would be too easy."
> >>
> >> Also perl and python are looking more sensical now...so thanks for
> >> that too.  Funny how a vested interest will open doors.  Maybe that's
> >> just how I learn...
> >
> > I guess there is some advantage to being old...  Back in the days before
> > X was included, the entire set of manual pages for the standard unix
> > utilities fit in a fairly small book that you could easily flip through
> > to see what each did and why you might want to use it.  Now that there
> > are thousands of programs instead of a few hundred, I'm not sure how you
> > would pick out the old core set that did pretty much every operation you
> > might want with lines of text.  These have a lot to do with the reasons
> > we still like unix-like systems and they still work just as well as
> > ever.  Back then, the shell didn't have arrays and no one thought it
> > needed them since you mostly used a sequence of tools to do all the work.
> >
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