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Wasn't too sure where to put this topic, so I'll start here. I need to learn Linux bash shell programming to a proficient level, but don't know where to start. I have Knoppix and I have VMWare, but don't know where to find the Linux add-in for VMWare. I don't know if there are any Linux aficionados here, but if there are, I would definitely appreciate the assistance.
Seriously thought, you can install the Bash shell onto your Windows environment, if it will help you learn better & faster, this might be idea. Any command that you should have questions about, the man command will show you all options, as well as situational examples.
A handy guide that I have been using since the late 90's is Linux in a nuttshell. It has a horse on the cover. It covers many handy commands, as well as groups them according to user needs, system admin needs, vi, sed, & awk.
Seriously thought, you can install the Bash shell onto your Windows environment, if it will help you learn better & faster, this might be idea. Any command that you should have questions about, the man command will show you all options, as well as situational examples.
A handy guide that I have been using since the late 90's is Linux in a nuttshell. It has a horse on the cover. It covers many handy commands, as well as groups them according to user needs, system admin needs, vi, sed, & awk.
Thanks, found the 4th edition of the book online and am D/L'ing it now. As far as the Bash Shell, where would I find that? Do I just google it and D/L what I find, b/c I found something but not sure if it's the right thing. Here's it's URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
Basically MinGW is a native Windows port of the GNU toolset, MSYS and MSYS-DTK provide Bash and a whole bunch of commonly used Linux tools (awk, cvs, etc).
Cygwin is nice but huge, and it takes a long time to install.
There are also stand-alone ports of Bash floating around but they aren't very useful if you can't find ports of all the other GNU tools as well.
Edit: Actually if you just want Bash, you could probably skip the MinGW install.
This post has been edited by Tom9729: 13 Aug, 2008 - 04:51 AM
Basically MinGW is a native Windows port of the GNU toolset, MSYS and MSYS-DTK provide Bash and a whole bunch of commonly used Linux tools (awk, cvs, etc).
Cygwin is nice but huge, and it takes a long time to install.
There are also stand-alone ports of Bash floating around but they aren't very useful if you can't find ports of all the other GNU tools as well.
Edit: Actually if you just want Bash, you could probably skip the MinGW install.
12 Aug, 2008 - 04:32 PM
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