[ale] Proposal - ALE Bash Tutorial

[John LaPierre]

I for one am always willing to learn -  when I can do it a little byte at a 
time, that's a plus for me. Hey - it's Linux, and you sound enthusiastic - I 
say go for it!

Thanks - 

jj
 
On Monday 02 September 2002 03:11 pm, Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> Hi ALE community,
>
> I, like others, I am sure, seek with great eagerness to ascend to the
> highest realms of shell godhood.  Unfortunately, at this point I reside
> at the the lowliest level of shell initiate.
>
> One problem, as I perceive it, is that one really needs to have problems
> to work through in order to get better with the shell.  However,
> recognizing instances where a clever and elegant shell solution are
> appropriate is hard if you are not used to it.  The more one works
> through problems using shell shortcuts, the easier it is to identify the
> appropriate commands and where to use them.  Or when a particular
> collection of piped commands works well for a certain task.
>
> What I would like from the serious command line users on the ALE list is
> some help.  Think about instances where you had a specific problem(s)
> that you solved with a collection of piped commands or a shell script
> and email them to me.
>
> I will organize the exercises into a weekly bash tutorial lesson,
> beginning with simple, common, even cliched series' of piped commands
> and working toward good sized shell scripts. If a specific set of files,
> directory structure, etc is needed (to apply the solution to), I will
> create these and organize them into a tarball for the participants.  Of
> course, I won't be collecting the answers or running a contest like or
> anything like that.  This will be a work on your own, type thing. Of
> course the archive will be around for this who wish to start from the
> beginning at any time.
>
> I do not anticipate a - introduction to commands X, Y, Z; now use X, Y,
> Z to solve the following problem - type of structure.  Instead, the
> exercise should be the lesson.  The sources of information are out there
> on the web (www.tldp.org).  In my opinion, the downfall of these
> references is that they don't provide the challenge to the beginning
> user I propose here.
>
> I have the web space, but hopefully we can link to it from the ALE site.
>
> I imagine a simplified lesson would look something like this:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Welcome to the ALE Bash tutorial Lesson for week n
>
> here are some solutions to last week's exercise:
>
> $ foo -xy /home/me/foo/*[xy]?.txt|bar|grep x /home/me/foo
> home/me/xyz|less
> $ foo -xy /home/me/foo/*.txt|grep xyz /home/me/foo home/me/foo>foobar
>
> There are certainly many other solutions to the problem.  These are
> provided as an example.
>
> This week's challenge is provided by John Doe.
>
> Once upon a time John needed to do such and such.  He needed to organize
> the output like blah blah.
>
> Download this <href>tarball</href> and unzip it to a working directory.
> Don't alter the included the directory structure.  Sort the files
> according such and such a criteria and organize the output in such and
> such a way.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> What does everybody think of this idea?  Awesome and beneficial?  A
> stupid waste of time?  Does anybody have any suggestions or opinions on
> a better way to do this?
>
> Are there any list regulars who can help by supplying problems?
>
> Are there any newbies interested in working out weekly Bash puzzles just
> for kicks?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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