[ale] Proposal - ALE Bash Tutorial

[Arafat Mohamed]

Awesome idea. I'd love to see something like this.

John LaPierre wrote:
> 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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