discuss: BASH programming
Subject:
Re: BASH programming
From:
Saqib Ali ####@####.####
Date:
31 Jan 2004 19:13:46 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.55.0401311058260.21218@sjgcs1.stsj.seagate.com>
http://www.xml-dev.com:8080/tldp/http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/*checkout*/LDP/howto/docbook/Bash-Scripting-Introduction-HOWTO.xml
is now available :)
Saqib Ali
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Ruth A. Kramer wrote:
> Francis Litterio wrote:
> > I can see how you would think that nobody is working on that HOWTO,
> > since somehow my name has been removed from the LDP Works In Progress
> > page at:
> >
> > http://www.tldp.org/authors/inprogress.html
>
> Francis,
>
> I had started to read (and review) your draft at
> http://www.xml-dev.com:8080/tldp/http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/*checkout*/LDP/howto/docbook/Intro-Bash-Scripting-HOWTO.xml
> but I can't reload it today. Is it available somewhere else?
>
> I found a few what I think are typos and would like to return them to
> you (assuming I find them again) in the easiest possible way (for me,
> sorry ;-). You don't have the text on any interactive thing like a
> wiki, do you?
>
> Asides:
>
> 1. BTW, what I've seen so far looks good, and seems much better than
> whatever I read a few years ago (although my memory may be of a mishmash
> of the various Bash HOWTOS, like the advanced, and so forth.
>
> 2. I noticed that the section (heading) for extremely long bash lines
> (IIRC) was empty. I wonder if extremely long Bash lines are handled by
> the same (to me wierd) approach that is used in the .Xdefaults file,
> where the first ends in a /, subsequent lines (except the last) end in a
> /n/, and no spaces are acceptable after the /n/?
>
> regards,
> Randy Kramer
>
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