Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Anthony Anson wrote:
I'd be grateful if someone could point me at a page/pages which give the scripts for commands I can type into a 'terminal', so I can make things happen in this awful Kenvironment.
Too hurriedly, I bought 'Command Line & Shell Scripting' - at huge expense, only to disover that a) because what the author really meant by the title was 'Shell Scripting in a ommand Line Environment', b) I can't haggle with Borders about exchanging it,
If you are looking for dead tree then you probably want something like "Linux in a Nutshell" published by O'Reilly which really covers the basics of working in the shell and then provides usage instructions for the more common tools. The ALUG library has the most recent revision of this which you are welcome to borrow, just contact me off list and I'll sort you out.
Thanks - I'll see how other suggestions pan-out: making actual contact with other members ATM means catching them before my last bus leaves Naaardge at 18.40...
Short of that you are looking at man/info pages on the system, I'd avoid blindly following examples on random forums as there is a fair bit of bad advice out there and really you should understand the the basic concepts of anything you are typing in under advice.
Well, if it's anything really complicated/dangerous, I've a tame Debian developer to bother. However, I don't want to overdo it with questions I can easily find answers to myself.
The Eee's handbook isn't comprehensive, though...
There are resources like this badly titled page http://ss64.com/bash/ if you just want to browse a list of commonly available tools (all of which may not be installed on your system)
Thanks - I'll have a shufti.