benefits of shell~

black · 05-13-2004, 09:51 PM

hi all~

i want to learn basic and powerful shell programming and before this i want to know advantages of shell, ie what can we do with shell ?

Regards~

aikempshall · 05-14-2004, 01:25 AM

A good place to start is http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

black · 05-14-2004, 01:40 AM

dead link ???

aikempshall · 05-14-2004, 01:48 AM

Not in Britain!

I assume that you can't access the site?

black · 05-14-2004, 02:43 AM

Yes, the page can not be displayed with my browser

aikempshall · 05-14-2004, 02:52 AM

Have you tried drilling down from http://www.tldp.org

black · 05-14-2004, 02:57 AM

i tried but failed either...

aikempshall · 05-14-2004, 02:59 AM

What response do you get from the site?

elluva · 05-14-2004, 09:38 AM

shell programming kicks ass, because you can do complex things with simple tools and with only a few lines of commands. Another thing is that compiling isn't needed, somethimes this can be usefull to generate a script with another script.

It can also be usefull to do some special tasks when you boot your pc or at login.

do some shell programming, you'll really feel the benefits of it...

nimra · 05-14-2004, 10:00 AM

imagine 5 different programs, who are specialized on a subtask. The programs work sequencially, one after the other. Instead of setting the same parameter every time in every program you can write a script, which sets the parameter for you. So you just change the input parameters of the first program, run the script an look at the output of the last program. If somethings goes wrong, the script allows you to write log files, reports, etc... to trace. So you can save a lot of time