Since I'm now officially working on revising a Python book (The Quick
Python Book, from Manning) I'd have to say that Python is a good choice. ;)
While C is definitely a language that advanced programmers should know,
Python is much easier as a first language.
Of the online resources, I'd recommend the following (not in any
particular order, except that the last expects somewhat more prior
programming experience):
http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python
http://hetland.org/writing/instant-hacking.html
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
http://diveintopython.org/
Cheers,
Vern
Nicholas Smith wrote:
Quote:
Originally Posted by *James*
/I need to know more about what your trying to do and why your using
gconf to do it?/
I'm just changing some keys in the gconf-editor with gconftool-2. There
are a lot of options in the gconf-editor that aren't in the normal (For
the lack of a better way to describe it) Gnome GUI. I writing a simple
script for my friends who use Linux, but don't like to tinker around
with it. I posted it on Ubuntu Forums, and I think that gconf-keys for
Nautilus and the Gnome-Panel have changed between 8.04 and 8.10, because
the script works perfectly for me, but not so much for people who are
running older versions.
Is anybody still running Hardy? I'd like someone to try to figure out
what isn't working in the script... I am at work now, but I could send
it to you once I get home.
As for writing a program in C... I have been meaning to take a smaller
step and move from BASH to Python, but I just haven't found the time.
Anyone know of some good tutorials in Python, or a book that doesn't
assume that you've programmed in other languages before? So far, I have
only written simple stuff to automate tasks with BASH, and in college I
took a semester of Visual Basic.
I'd like to learn all the major programming languages some day, but it
seems like Python is a smaller step since it's a scripting language too.
I'm a right, or does it not work that way?
-Nick
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:32:14 -0500
> Subject: Re: [fwlug] BASH Script Help
>
> Nicholas,
>
> Here is a link to advanced bash scripting that explain how to parse
> strings in bash:
>
http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/library/linuxguides/abs-guide/parameter-substitution.html
>
> Your original questions would be handled like this:
>
> bash.code.start
> parm=/apps/panel/objects/object_0/object_type ;
> echo "${parm%%/object_type}"
> bash.code.end
>
> returns => /apps/panel/objects/object_0
>
> This is the magic -- ${parm%%/object_type}
>
> As for the smarter way? I need to know more about what your trying to do
> and why your using gconf to do it?
>
> James,
> ps. how about writing a c program with gtk to meet this need? I could
> help you.
>
>
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 08:24 -0500, Nicholas Smith wrote:
> > I am writing a quick BASH script with a zenity GUI... one thing I
> > wanted to add is the option to change the main-menu icon. In the
> > gconf-editor you would change
> >
> > Code:
> > /apps/panel/objects/*/use_custom_icon
> > to true, and
> > Code:
> > /apps/panel/objects/*/custom_icon
> > to the location of the new icon.
> >
> > My problem... The "*" could be different for each user.... it may be
> > object_1, object_3, etc.
> >
> > I need the "menu-object" one, so I decided to figure it out with this
> > command:
> >
> > Code:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gconftool-2 --search-key object_type | grep
menu-object | awk '{print $1}'
> > ... and that returned this:
> > Code:
> > /apps/panel/objects/object_0/object_type
> > Now, how do I remove the object_type leaving just
> > "/apps/panel/objects/object_0/" ?
> >
> >
> > Or is there a smarter way to get to that output?
> >
> > -Nick
> >
> >
> >
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