[TriLUG] shell discussion

[Ian Meyer]

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Wow, I was about to say the same thing and found this in my "TriLUG" 
box. So yeah, I agree.

~Ian


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On Feb 23, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Ben Pitzer wrote:

> I'd kind of agree with Brian's first post.  I think limiting this to 
> Bash is
> probably enough.  Bash is pretty complex as shells go, and while 
> learning
> about Korn, C, tcsh, zsh, etc is all well and good, for the sake of 
> time and
> actually being able to get something out of it, I would suggest 
> sticking to
> Bash the first time.  If somebody wants to do another presentation 
> sometime
> about another shell, they can feel free to put one together, but a 
> night of
> a thousand shells sounds overwhelming, time consuming, and couldn't 
> possibly
> leave enough time for getting into the fun parts of each shell.  Bash 
> should
> make for a good 20-30 minute program, including questions and answers, 
> that
> allows everybody to get home to their families, pets, dorms, or kernel
> compilations at a reasonable hour, and will leave us all fairly well
> informed about the intricacies of the default Linux shell (in most 
> distros).
> I'd be happy to sit through a discussion of zsh another night, if 
> somebody
> wants to do it, and can make a decent presentation out of it.
>
> Just my $0.02.  All flames will be killfiled.
>
> Regards,
> Ben Pitzer
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
>> Behalf Of Brian A. Henning
>> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:58 PM
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] shell discussion
>>
>>
>>> FWIW, I'm not sure it's necessary to limit the discussion to the bash
>>> shell.  I mean, if there are enough bash 'tricks' to fill up an 
>>> average
>>> meeting's allotted time, then sure.  Otherwise, if somebody wants to
>>> talk about stuff for Korn shell, C Shell, Z Shell, or whatever,
>>> I don't see any good reason not to touch on other shells...
>>
>> Oh sure, I only mentioned bash myself because it's what I use.
>> I'm all for
>> diversity! :-)
>>
>> ~B
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