On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 07:50 -0500, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > ashwin kesavan iyengar wrote: > > >Can somebody > >suggest good linux books for me. I have tried some but of no success. > > > > > Teach yourself BASH scripting. Then learn Perl scripting. Although they > won't teach you anything about Linux in and of themselves, they are > invaluable tools with which you can communicate effectively with the O/S. > > The best site I've found for BASH is : http://en.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ > There are several good PERL sites, but CPAN is probably the site to > start with : http://www.cpan.org/ > > Lastly, you might want to read and re-read, and re-read once again all > the man pages for the commands you encounter during your wanderings. > Admittedly that's a tough way to gain an education, but its the > documentation for the tools that we use to communicate with the O/S. Its > specific to Linux and specific to a particular distribution of Linux, > which is usually a lot better than the generic verbage offered in books > on the subject. > > You can convert man pages to text files via a command like: > man ssh | col -b >ssh.txt > and then modify and eventually print the text file to make your own book. > > -- > Bill Gradwohl > bill@xxxxxxx > http://www.ycc.com > spamSTOMPER Protected email > those were some great tips from everyone, thanks! -- =Guy 09:11:14 up 1 day, 11:35, 3 users, load average: 1.87, 1.30, 1.40
