Jack,
For most "UNIX" commands (and many other features of UNIX) the man pages are a great reference. However I don't actually find the ones for sh useful when I am trying to write new shell scripts. I have just written a script on Solaris to FTP several files to a remote host and frankly the man pages were absolutely useless for this. Dave -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Woehr Sent: 30 May 2008 20:41 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Trying to Learn z/Linux ISHELL Scripting Dave Wade wrote: Any online resources you would recommend? Yeah. Get on a Unix system and type man sh The Unix manuals are fabulous. They're not corporate expiatiation of contractual responsibility. They're the heart of the developer being poured out in front of you. If you actually read the thing and get to the end of the man page, you've got it. It's very concise and pithy you have to think as you read it, but if you can understand the man page, you understand the mind of the creators of Unix. After you've read the man page, there are any number of sites. But the way to find the right site for a question you have is to have a fully formed question. A site isn't going to walk you into basic shell competency. That's what 'man sh' is there for. -- Jack J. Woehr # "Self-delusion is http://www.well.com/~jax # half the battle!" http://www.softwoehr.com # - Zippy the Pinhead
