On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 19:23 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 15:59 +1000, Roger wrote:
When did bash become Swahili or was bash written in swahili.
The man file might as well be... It's huge. Telling someone to read man bash is like asking the to read War and Peace.
Most of it is about using Bash for scripting. The interactive part isn't that big, and there are a zillion references in books and web pages about basic things like wildcards and environment variables ($PATH etc.), most of which aren't even specific to Bash. They're part of the Unix culture and anyone who isn't at least aware of them is going to have a hard time.
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