Hi everyone, Thanks for the many recommendations. Unfortunately (?) at a place like Google, the command-line mumbo jumbo is a big part of my requisite knowledge. I am in the middle of "learning the bash shell" by Newham and Rosenblatt. So far it's good, though I was hoping for more "here's what you might use sed for" stuff...
Google gave me another OS X laptop (I tried to stop them, I swear!) so I suppose the bash and general *nix stuff will help me there too. Despite the obvious assumption that I'm sure some of you hold, I've spent very little time interacting with the *NIX side of OS X, and a lot more time interacting with its happy GUI... (Whee, watch those windows fly!) Anyway, based on the recommendations, I think I will purchase: C++ Primer Unix Power Tools Maybe later I will get: Linux Cookbook Linux in a Nutshell The C++ Programming Language, Special 3rd ed., by Bjarne Stroustrup (Too many books and I will read none of them...) I already own the Scott Myers C++ book, it's standard issue at Google. I know my Linux question was a little broad. I should have qualified that I'm using some version of Red Hat (beats me which one) with a very pleasant if quirky GUI. So I guess I was hoping for something to give me some perspective on the field as well as specific knowledge that I can apply tomorrow. Cheers, Nick --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >While bash is not Linux. But much of what you do in Linux is often at > >the command line or a shell script. So a good grasp of bash can be > >useful. > > I spend a great deal of my time trying to overcome this myth when talking > to > people about Linux :( I would honestly say I spend as much time in the > command line on my Linux box as I do on my OSX box or on my Windows box. > Not > to say you cannot do a lot of work in the command line if you wish, but > just > as MS batch files are not Windows bash scripts are not Linux. And, if > you > wish, you never have to see a command line in Linux, just as you never > have to > see one in windows. And while I know the people in this thread probably > know > this, I just wanted to clear it up for any lurkers out their :) > > > Bryan O'Neal > President > Linux Users Group of > Arizona State University > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
