[K12OSN] OT: Bash help

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Wed Nov 21 19:42:14 UTC 2007


Ummm...Les, you wouldn't happen to have one of them old books lay'n 
about would ya? ;)




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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