Beginner Bash: Must-Know Bash Commands

[droope]

Hiya!

http://www.canoo.com/blog/?p=1635

Cheers!
Droope

[fratermus]

The author seems to conflate "bash" and "shell". To complicate matters further, s/he also seems to believe that utilities like editors and find are functions of the shell.*

The kinds of things one should know about bash in particular would be something like:

• bash-specific config file names and uses

• efficiency techniques like command-line editing and history, tab completion

• parameter/variable expansion

• the fact that bash is not everywhere, and it is good to know how to work with a vanilla Bourne shell, for portability purposes if nothing else.

* one might argue that in a busybox scenario much of the distinction is lost

[technosaurus]

droope - nice post, but could you maybe pick a thread for these? - not that I care about cluttering up the forum ... it would just be cool to have them together

fratermus - yes & now busybox even has a bash applet that will alias either hush or ash, but really bash scripting could include anything that can be scripted in bash - at least in the Linux standard base - although bash is not everywhere, that is when you change #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash (I try to make things at least busybox compatible for sh, dash is too clunky - its hard to believe that ubuntu is still using dash when they have busybox)

[ttuuxxx]

droope - nice post, but could you maybe pick a thread for these? -

maybe the one I started last year, already has 2 pages.
ttuuxxx
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=288853