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Writing a Linux shell book the community way (blogs.ComputerWorld)
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes
a look at a new book from the FSF and O'Reilly. "There are
several ways you can learn how to use the Linux command line. The way I
took was the traditional one. I read the, ahem, fine manual, RTFM as we
like to say, and I used the 'man' command a lot. That was well back before
O'Reilly started publishing its great Unix and Linux technology books. Now,
the FSF (Free Software Foundation), is having a community 'write-in' to
create a new, free book "Introduction to the Command Line" for Linux
beginners."
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Writing a Linux shell book the community way (blogs.ComputerWorld) Posted Mar 21, 2009 17:19 UTC (Sat) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link]
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Much as I love Emacs... Posted Mar 23, 2009 13:00 UTC (Mon) by neiljerram (subscriber, #12005) [Link]
...why is there a chapter about Emacs in a manual called "Introduction to the Command Line"?
More positively... I just read the Getting Started chapter and thought it was excellent.
Much as I love Emacs... Posted Mar 23, 2009 19:48 UTC (Mon) by dennisk (guest, #12308) [Link]
Well, the bash shell does use Emacs style bindings by default and anyone should be familiar with the major command line editors available for GNU/Linux.
I was there and although not a command line guru, I was still able to contribute to the book. It was a fun experience.
Dennisk
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