[Novalug] Re: Fun with bash
Jay Hart
jhart@kevla.org
Tue Jan 2 09:46:25 EST 2007
Alan,
Don't tease us, give us the URL for the pdf file...
Jay
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 08:17:21PM -0500, Jay Hart wrote:
>>
>> > Yeah, there's a bash-completion RPM for Fedora. I haven't got into zsh
>> > but it's been recommended to me several times. Next spare couple of
>> > hours, maybe...
>> >
>>
>> Sounds like a great topic for a NOVALUG meeting: Differences between zsh and
>> Bash.
> I don't know anything about zsh, but I have just recently stumbled
> on a great book(freely downloadable as a 2meg, 600+ page .pdf)
> Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, by Mendel Cooper
>
> I think of it as a very learned sequel to the O'Reilly "Learning
> the bash shell".
>
> A little cuteness I learned from the very first pages: try
>
> echo $(( 2#101011 )) and then echo $(( 3#1202 ))
>
> ! Before you try the above two commands, do you know beforehand what the
> responses will be? If you do, you have bragging rights as a
> shell guru IMHO.
>
> Enjoy! and Happy New Year!
>
> Alan
>
> --
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>
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