"There are two major products that came out of Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
"If you have any trouble sounding condescending,
find a Unix user to show you how it's done. "
Steve
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jack Woehr
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 3:41 PM
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
