Recently I got a email to say a new edition of a book has been released it could have been "Conquer the command line" 3rd edition.
When I went to purchase it I thought why not add on "An introduction to C & GUI programming" 2nd edition,
Both books was fairly cheap, so it tweaked my interest to go ahead and buy them on the same order, thinking I could always donate the books to the SPCA secondhand shop if the books was too "basic". The staff shop assistant was already delighted when I gave them my old book "learn C++ in 24 hours" recently. I have a couple of other better books on C++.
Nether of the books have a index, so if you would like to read up on a command line you have to go hunting for it, and hope you are not wasting your time.
I have on a spreadsheet it has a list of about 350 commands starting with addgroup and going to zip (some have old information or deprecated command) , I did have three variations of wildcards $, *, [ ]
I always use the asterisk as wildcard when tring to find a file.
then recently I have added in
&&Lets you run another command if the previous one is successful like using the semicolon.
|| (or)(The double pipes) is reverse to the pair of ampersands it will do second command if the previous command fails
;lets you run more commands on the same line.
> (also see tee) Redirects the information normally displayed on screen to a file, deletes old information
>> (see tee)Redirects the information normally displayed on screen to a file keeps old information
So we have free > free.txt redirects the free details normally seen on the screen and puts it in a file called "free.txt" is much the same as using free | tee free.txt but also get shown on the screen
And free | tee -a is the same as using free >> free.txt except it also get shown on the screen and saved to the free.txt file and does not delete previous information that was saved in the free.txt file
One thing that really put me off with recommending this book was the screen shots are in the black with white font, I spent some time setting up my command terminal with white background with black font, it was made harder by some of the color font was harder to set up. yellow font on white background about as hard as getting excited as looking at the screen shots in the book, the publishers must have shares in black printers ink.
The real "hernia of stress" came when I came up with the crazy idea to link up the commands used in book page number with my spreadsheet then offer it to the author to use as the index, so I went to use the second and last URL given on page VII (pre-page 7) I was not sure on the password, in fact I do not think I have ever had a account, the "Prove you are a human" must have been thought up by artificial intelligence (AI) when it wanted to fill the time sheet before going on vacation and approved by the reaction of a monkey in the zoo when it was offered a non organic banana at meal time. Before the last country budget I emailed a friend and said Be sympathetic to some government choices, they have not developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) potential to 100% I have seen much better intelligence used in "prove you are a human" in fact I think the whole thing is time wasted dribble so so the webmaster can squeeze a bit more easy money out of their client.
I must go and something that gives better rewards with success. I would like to say more
When I went to purchase it I thought why not add on "An introduction to C & GUI programming" 2nd edition,
Both books was fairly cheap, so it tweaked my interest to go ahead and buy them on the same order, thinking I could always donate the books to the SPCA secondhand shop if the books was too "basic". The staff shop assistant was already delighted when I gave them my old book "learn C++ in 24 hours" recently. I have a couple of other better books on C++.
Nether of the books have a index, so if you would like to read up on a command line you have to go hunting for it, and hope you are not wasting your time.
I have on a spreadsheet it has a list of about 350 commands starting with addgroup and going to zip (some have old information or deprecated command) , I did have three variations of wildcards $, *, [ ]
I always use the asterisk as wildcard when tring to find a file.
then recently I have added in
&&Lets you run another command if the previous one is successful like using the semicolon.
|| (or)(The double pipes) is reverse to the pair of ampersands it will do second command if the previous command fails
;lets you run more commands on the same line.
> (also see tee) Redirects the information normally displayed on screen to a file, deletes old information
>> (see tee)Redirects the information normally displayed on screen to a file keeps old information
So we have free > free.txt redirects the free details normally seen on the screen and puts it in a file called "free.txt" is much the same as using free | tee free.txt but also get shown on the screen
And free | tee -a is the same as using free >> free.txt except it also get shown on the screen and saved to the free.txt file and does not delete previous information that was saved in the free.txt file
One thing that really put me off with recommending this book was the screen shots are in the black with white font, I spent some time setting up my command terminal with white background with black font, it was made harder by some of the color font was harder to set up. yellow font on white background about as hard as getting excited as looking at the screen shots in the book, the publishers must have shares in black printers ink.
The real "hernia of stress" came when I came up with the crazy idea to link up the commands used in book page number with my spreadsheet then offer it to the author to use as the index, so I went to use the second and last URL given on page VII (pre-page 7) I was not sure on the password, in fact I do not think I have ever had a account, the "Prove you are a human" must have been thought up by artificial intelligence (AI) when it wanted to fill the time sheet before going on vacation and approved by the reaction of a monkey in the zoo when it was offered a non organic banana at meal time. Before the last country budget I emailed a friend and said Be sympathetic to some government choices, they have not developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) potential to 100% I have seen much better intelligence used in "prove you are a human" in fact I think the whole thing is time wasted dribble so so the webmaster can squeeze a bit more easy money out of their client.
I must go and something that gives better rewards with success. I would like to say more
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