On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:19:37 -0600 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> »Q« wrote: > > It's current and it's fine for Gentoo. It's in the portage tree as > > app-doc/abs-guide, in case you want a local copy. > > I'm installing this and will give it a read when I get some free > time. I hope this will not be to long. I'd forgotten about this, but drobbins wrote a series of three "Bash by Example" articles almost ten years ago, and the first two cover a lot of the fundamental stuff. I found them useful when I was starting out. (Heh, I'm not sure I'm done starting out.) <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash.html> Some of the Gentoo-specific things in the third article aren't true any more, for example, "Bash is an essential component of the Gentoo Linux ebuild system." -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.
