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DLRogue
post 12 Aug, 2008 - 04:32 PM
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Wasn't too sure where to put this topic, so I'll start here. I need to learn Linux bash shell programming to a proficient level, but don't know where to start. I have Knoppix and I have VMWare, but don't know where to find the Linux add-in for VMWare. I don't know if there are any Linux aficionados here, but if there are, I would definitely appreciate the assistance.
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post 12 Aug, 2008 - 05:11 PM
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Seriously thought, you can install the Bash shell onto your Windows environment, if it will help you learn better & faster, this might be idea. Any command that you should have questions about, the man command will show you all options, as well as situational examples.

A handy guide that I have been using since the late 90's is Linux in a nuttshell. It has a horse on the cover. It covers many handy commands, as well as groups them according to user needs, system admin needs, vi, sed, & awk.
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#man man


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Seriously thought, you can install the Bash shell onto your Windows environment, if it will help you learn better & faster, this might be idea. Any command that you should have questions about, the man command will show you all options, as well as situational examples.

A handy guide that I have been using since the late 90's is Linux in a nuttshell. It has a horse on the cover. It covers many handy commands, as well as groups them according to user needs, system admin needs, vi, sed, & awk.

Thanks, found the 4th edition of the book online and am D/L'ing it now. As far as the Bash Shell, where would I find that? Do I just google it and D/L what I find, b/c I found something but not sure if it's the right thing. Here's it's URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

Is this what I'm looking for?
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post 12 Aug, 2008 - 07:00 PM
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You'd probably be easier off installing Cygwin

It's a bash shell (can load other shells too) that is designed to run on Windows.
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I would actually recommend MinGW and MSYS before trying Cygwin.

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MSYS
MSYS-DTK

Basically MinGW is a native Windows port of the GNU toolset, MSYS and MSYS-DTK provide Bash and a whole bunch of commonly used Linux tools (awk, cvs, etc).

Cygwin is nice but huge, and it takes a long time to install.

There are also stand-alone ports of Bash floating around but they aren't very useful if you can't find ports of all the other GNU tools as well.

Edit: Actually if you just want Bash, you could probably skip the MinGW install.

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post 13 Aug, 2008 - 04:34 AM
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Ahh, so thats why DevCPP kept going on about MingW...
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QUOTE(Tom9729 @ 13 Aug, 2008 - 05:27 AM) *

I would actually recommend MinGW and MSYS before trying Cygwin.

MinGW
MSYS
MSYS-DTK

Basically MinGW is a native Windows port of the GNU toolset, MSYS and MSYS-DTK provide Bash and a whole bunch of commonly used Linux tools (awk, cvs, etc).

Cygwin is nice but huge, and it takes a long time to install.

There are also stand-alone ports of Bash floating around but they aren't very useful if you can't find ports of all the other GNU tools as well.

Edit: Actually if you just want Bash, you could probably skip the MinGW install.


Which is actually easier for a beginner to use?
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Which is actually easier for a beginner to use?

Well the end-result for all of them is basically the same.

I think installing MSYS would be the easiest though.
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