I really need to start leaning scripting of some flavor.
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 11:44 AM Steve Litt <
slitt@troubleshooters.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:33:11 -0500
> "Harold Hartley" <wheelie207@ownmail.net> wrote:
>
> > I am interested in learning to write code and not sure where to start.
> > I'm looking for anyone that can steer me in the right direction for
> > books or web site that can help me get started.
> >
> > I currently run Fedora 29, with 1 TB drive, i3-7100 processor and
> > currently 4 GB ram but will be upgrading to 16 GB ram and with dual
> > monitors.
>
> Do you ever create shellscripts to automate part of your Fedora 29's
> work? If so, that's writing code. Explore branching, looping, sending
> signals back and forth using kill. When you find your shellscript's
> runtime performance too slow, or when you find it inconvenient to code
> bigger programs in shellscripts, it's time to switch to Python.
>
> By the way, I begin all my shellscripts with #!/bin/sh, not
> #!/bin/bash, because Bash is a great interactive shell but it's bloated
> overkill for shellscripts.
>
> SteveT
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