command line work

[Neil]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 10:49 -0500, David Clark wrote:
>> I am now comfortable enough with Ubuntu that I want to venture out of
>> the GUI. I come from a command line background-back to DOS 4 (yuck)
>>
>> So where do I begin?
>
> http://books.google.de/books?id=dzBCH3x6fYEC&dq=learning+the+bash+shell
>
> Some of the guides here: http://tldp.org/guides.html (e.g., Bash Guide
> for Beginners)
>
> Some chapters from Rutebook. Install the package rutebook from the
> Ubuntu repositories, then open /usr/share/doc/rutebook/html/index.html
> in your browser (or open /usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.pdf.gz in Evince)
>
> There are many other things you can do, but I think these will keep you
> busy for a while :)
>
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Hi

You could buy the Bash Cookbook. I heard it was a perfect book to
start commandline (bash) work and ventures far into the scripting
domain (where you'll probably want to go someday).

I bought it a couple of weeks back but haven't had the time to start with it.

Neil
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