Linux: Learning the Shell Part 2

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[ShadowAce]

[freedumb2003]

This was bumped for “journalists?”

[ShadowAce]

What?

[Red Badger]

Looks a lot like DOS...................

[freedumb2003]

Telling newly-laid-off fiction writers (aka “journalists”) to “learn to code” is now considered “hate speech” on Twitter.

Seriously.

Man, do I need to tell you in FORTRAN?

:)

[ShadowAce]

Ahh--I had heard about that, but had not made the connection.

The word "bumped" led me down to looking through FR (BTTT).

[freedumb2003]

DOS can do regular expressions but when you get deep into it Unix directories are not quite the same as DOS folders.

For 90% of programming purposes, they work as analogies.

I have done system level (well script level) programming on both platforms and do rely on the analogies to help me.

[freedumb2003]

LOL, I indeed “bumped” this so journalists cold have an opportunity to learn to code :)

Not sure how many ex-fiction writers are here but we have to help our fellow man/woman/thingie lurkers.

[backwoods-engineer]

Well, less is more, so you can do more with less. :-)

Thanks for posting this handy reference. I'm going to save this as a PDF.

[ShadowAce]

I'm going to save this as a PDF.

Before you save this column as a PDF, check out his free-to-download book. It goes into much more detail.

[bigbob]

is this a no bashing thread?

[ShadowAce]

It’s all about the bash shell.

[Openurmind]

Lol... Are you for or against bashing? I think at this point it might be redundant. Everyone is catching on and becoming more objective by now. The Windows update problem thread was pretty self explanatory.

[Openurmind]

I learned a lot about the directory tree differences in part one. :)

[SanchoP]

They missed the best shell command of all.

"mc" :)

[Phil DiBasquette]

The FORmula Translator RAN!

[freedumb2003]

>>The FORmula Translator RAN!<<

*best Tim Allen voice*

So close!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Those who do not learn from ~/.bash_history are doomed to repeat it.

[Pollard]

I’ve been running linux for close to ten years and haven’t used any of that stuff or at least very little and even then, I most likely copied and pasted some code from the ubuntu forums or stackexchange. Handy chart for Ubuntu Server as it has no GUI(graphic user interface). Or if you just like typing in a terminal.