On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, John<[email protected]> wrote: > I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and > Ubuntu Shell access? Also does anybody have any website I can look at to > learn shell script?
There's no easy answer to that. The basic shell is /bin/bash (the Bourne Again SHell - it's a Unix joke ;-)) so in that regard there is no difference. However once you get into the shell the majority of commands you will carry out are actually executables rather than part of the shell and these can differ across distributions, but not nearly as much as they used to with different versions of Unix (eg. Solaris 2.3 vs. HP-UX vs. Sequent vs. Pyramid etc.). For shell manual see http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html Also be aware of the "man" command which can be very useful for command line utilities. "man <cmd>" gives you help, press <space> to scroll through pages. Sean -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
