Hi Volker, no I don't mind at all, and appreciate the suggestion. I'm no dummy as a [1] - I am still coming to terms with doing things this other/better way. I say better as my equivalent windows script is dozens of lines, takes quite a lot of setting up, and is fairly difficult to maintain. The finished bash script from this weekend is 20 lines (plus comments) half of which are a listing of directories, is easy to read and maintain, and will be easy to adapt. This is precisely the power you are referring to and a great example of the sort of thing I have been working towards doing with linux. I'm very pleased I have perservered and climbed the steep initial learning curve I was presented with - I am at the point of doing some very useful things now! It not nearly the struggle it once was, and I don't actually need the windows installation on this box any more as I haven't used it in ages.
And thanks CS for the links, and Nick. Time to have a look at them now... Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > >> On Sat 17 Mar 2007 08:02:29 NZDT +1300, Roger Searle wrote: >> >> [lots of bash very basics] >> >> If you don't mind me saying Roger, you need to sit down with a basic >> bash tutorial. There are more than you can handle, so pick the one(s) >> you like best. Everything you learn about bash scripting you can re-use >> as-is on the command line. Any skill here will allow you to do things >> with 5-liners a Microsoftie[1] can never dream of. That includes trivial >> backup methods, automating things when they are non-interactive, and a >> gazillion other things you discover when you get there. >> >> Volker >> >> [1] User of software products coming out of Redmond, USA. >> > > You might find this more than somewhat useful:- > ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-doc-3.2.tar.gz > > Unfortunately the above URL does not contain the source files from which the > above documents were typeset for 'Letter' format paper. The documentation > sources and a very informative FAQ are in the source code file located at:- > ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-3.2.tar.gz > > The very informative FAQ is available separately at:- > http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/FAQ > > -- > CS > >
