My two favorite UNIX/Linux books! Part 2 [UNIX Shells by Example]

[liteonbeta]

Bash can be used for web development too. But obviously it is not as good as PHP, Ruby, etc. The fix protocol guys is prolly scripting tools that filter streams of text through awk, sed, cut, rev, sort, uniq, etc.

[cilomanfreebsd]

BS, just learn python. Instead of all these shell languages that have no use anywhere but in the shell. Unless you just want to waste your time.

[joshmathesonchief]

@cilomanfreebsd Why? bash/ksh can run on on any POSIX-ish OS: linux, aix, hp ux, solaris, free bsd, etc. So that leaves Windows. Can you run your python source on both Windows and non-Windows without changing the code/environment a lot? I can run my shell scripts on cygwin or a windows bash shell.

[cilomanfreebsd]

@joshmathesonchief

There is nothing that bash/ksh/csh/ etc.. can do that you can't do with python. However there many things that you can do with python that you can't do with Bash. Like web development.

Python is portable to any system. And python is a lot more readable than shell only languages. There just isn't any real need to learn bash. none.

But it's your life. If that is what you want to learn, learn it. But you could spend your time more wisely learning python.

[VanXIInX]

This is in my reproduction list right now.

Thank you for posting it.

[FIXProtocol]

@VanXIInX What is your "reproduction list"?

[VanXIInX]

@FIXProtocol My Playlist, sorry, i was yet learning english 6 months before. It's a funny english error.

[FIXProtocol]

@VanXIInX Divertido! Pensé que era un autor de libros o algo así! Traducciones literales le dará todo el tiempo!