> Perhaps we should have the FIRST talk of the evening being a intro to > scripts - what they are, what a #! line is for, the concept of stdin and > stdout and pipes. That should be enough to understand the rest and > should take no more than the standard 15 minutes allowed for the others.
Good scheme. I'm happy to change the bash talk accordingly, ie general intro to "scripts". Taking 5 minutes for the basics of bash I/O would still be a good idea IMO as this is needed for making use of other scripts. > Also I see no reason to exand on any of the differences between shell > implementations, again it is only an intro and should use bash as it is > the defined standard for linux (stop arguing). Agreed ;) Those who need/want to know those differences know them already anyway. Those who don't know are using bash and don't need to. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
