Jim Farli

[Jim]

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 15:59, Michael Havens wrote:
> Jim,
> I was wondering if you knew of a book that teaches command line commands only. 
> You know all the questions that I've been asking (like the PDA issue) have 
> been solved using the command line; well I would like to know how to do it on 
> my own w/o bugging everybody else. Anyone who know's the answer to this 
> question, please chime in!
> 

I have a copy of Dr. Linux for you, Michael.  It is basically a printed
version of all the hot-to's.  Its a little dated, but should help.  

> What I was thinking was that I should learn the command line commands first 
> and then build on that with learning individual applications like Apache or 
> Perl, Awk, and other books I have seen in Bookman's.

If you are an old GUI user (i.e. Windows, you can find ways to do run
most applications from KDE or Gnome.  Some things, like compiling
source, backing up partitions, ets, are best done from the command line
if (AND ONLY IF) you understand what you want to do, what the command
does, and have a good foundation in Linus basics.

> -- 
> :-)~Mike~(-:
> 
> ps If one of you has a text book that was beneficial to your learning of the 
> command line can I have it?

I am checking to see if I have an extra copy of Running Linux.  It
contains all the command line commands, with all of their options, and
some examples of how to use some of the commands.  Again, this is a
"make sure you know what you want to do" books.

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 Jim

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