Caryl, the best intro I know of is by Machtelt Garrels (Tille), whom I had the honor of meeting at FOSDEM a couple of years ago: http://tille.garrels.be/training/bash/
An OpenOffice presentation version of her guide is available too: http://tille.garrels.be/training/bash/BGB.odp The O'Reilly book (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009656) is an excellent resource, I have written all over the margins of my copy. Finally, the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html) is an excellent resource with plenty of examples. There are a few Mac OSX-specific quirks, but none worth mentioning when starting out. There is however a neat trick: a file or folder can be dragged from a Finder window into a Terminal window where the path will be expanded, saving countless seconds of typing time (and typos). Hope this helps. Sean On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lucian and All, > > Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked. Now that leads to another question. > If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the image-writer-mac > file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G. posted > (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that? I have copies of that > download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD. > > Caryl > > P.S. Is there a handy dandy guide to commands for the Mac Terminal anywhere? > Sort of an "Idiot's Guide to the Mac Terminal" or "The Mac Terminal for > Dummies?" > >> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0100 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; >> [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News >> >> Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be >> done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to >> your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside. >> Then the second command does the actual image writing. >> >> On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi James, >> > >> >> You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type >> >> >> >> cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso >> >> >> >> Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you >> >> please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window? >> >> >> > >> > Right... I was trying to open it in a Finder window. I don't have a lot >> > of >> > experience with the terminal. Do I type in exactly what you have above >> > including the ; or is is that a punctuation? >> > >> > I'll try it tomorrow. It's about midnight here. >> > >> > Caryl >> > >> >> -- >> >> James Cameron >> >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> SoaS mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> SoaS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
