advanced bash script guide

[muggins]

Attached is "The advanced bash scripting guide", v5.2, as self-extracting archive. i just like it in this format because it is half the size of the .pdf version & half to one-quarter the size of extracted html. Just extract the attached abs.tar.gz to /, then the guide can be opened, (provided you've got dillo installed), by entering abs in a console, or via clicking on /usr/bin/abs.

also attached is a vtcl, (visual tcl), tut i saw on the net.

just use Pupzip to extract the self-extracting archives......sounds funny. Put the executables wherever you keep docs & click to view.

They extract to a temp directory in /tmp, then use dillo as a viewer. So you need dillo to view, otherwise modify to suit.

To copy script press left mouse key & drag to highlight, then to paste to text editor, press middle mouse key. I've reposted these as the idea was minimal size but most dloads were for larger versions!

i also added the bash-reference.

[muggins]

actually they were self-extracting but seemed to have stopped working here! do they load for anyone else?

[MU]

just tried the bash-tutorial, it works fine.
In opens in Dillo (I use the patched one).

Do they report errors in a shell for you?

Mark

[muggins]

mark,

both files contain dillo-patched as the viewer. i upx'ed it & got it down to 181kbytes, but it seems to sometimes be missing the dpi config files etc.

i like the idea of having the file browser internal to the file & am just experimenting on what configuration gives smallest size, reasonable display & minimum probs. i like using dillo as it's quite fast, and i didn't want to assume what the user's default html viewer was.

i tried a tcl based file viewer instead of dillo, which was very small, but it didn't display as well, and appeared to "lock up" memory upon closing.

i'll keep plodding on.

[muggins]

silly me! of course i could just use defaultbrowser! then the files are a lot smaller. however i still prefer dillo as my default as much zippier.

this post redundant. see first post.

[muggins]

This is the latest Advanced Bash Guide, version 5.1, as a self-extracting archive using defaultbrowser as the viewer. Extract to wherever you wish & run via ./abg, or clicking.

Edit: I've removed the version that was here, and posted an updated version in first post.

[cb88]

thanks muggins I hadn't seen this before might (99% sure ) this will come in handy...

[muggins]

I've updated the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide to v5.2. For some reason the previous version, where I was using defaultbrowser as the viewer wasn't working when I just checked. Surprisingly it was downloaded 95 times without any complaint? Anyway, I've reverted to using Dillo as the default viewer.

If you want to grab the docs & copy them somewhere whilst the DIllo browser is open, they're located in a temporary directory in /tmp, with a name like /tmp/selfxyz22, or some such.