Diary of a Network Geek

The trials and tribulations of a Certified Novell Engineer who's been stranded in Houston, Texas.

10/10/2005

10 Things: About the BASH shell

Filed under: Apple,Geek Work,Linux,Ooo, shiny... — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Monkey which is in the late afternoon or 5:15 pm for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waxing Gibbous

There’s a whole series of these.
TechRepublic has a whole series of these Ten Things You Should Know articles. I’ll post several over the coming weeks and months. Why? Because I like them and they’re a “no brainer” for content on this site. I’m all about easy content!
Anyway, this time it’s Ten Things You Should Know About the BASH Shell. There are a bunch of short-cuts here. Everything from running processes in the background (try that with a command prompt in Windows!) to doing calculations right there on the command line. Now, this might not be all that great for everyone, but, for a command-line junky like me, it’s pure gold. Also, if you’re running Mac OS X, you might check it out. These should all work on your command line, too, if you can find it amongst all those pretty graphics.
Don’t ignore the power of the command line!

2 Comments

  1. You should plot your escape from Houston. Everyone’s doing it.

    Comment by Thomas — 10/11/2005 @ 1:17 pm

  2. I would, but I’m just now refinancing my house, so… Actually, most of the time, you know, when the secret-weather-machine-induced end of the world isn’t on the way, Houston’s not such a bad place!

    Comment by the Network Geek — 10/11/2005 @ 1:18 pm

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