Re: [Help-bash] Learning Bash Shell Programming

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, DJ Mills wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Hans-Juergen Becker <
> address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Interesting remark. Do you think so about
> >
> > http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
> >
> > too?
> >
> > I'm asking because i often use especially the second one,
> >
> > regards,
> > Hans-Jürgen

> Sorry to say it, but the "advanced" bash guide is the single largest
> source of misinformation about bash out there.

   Have you looked at it recently?

   Can you point to one error?

> It's the reason you see so many people try to parse ls,

   There's nothing wrong with that, so long as you know what you're
   doing.

> or read a file line by line with 'for foo in $(cat file)',

   I wish I had a penny for every time I've corrected that in various forums!

> or use unquoted expansions. The beginners guide you linked to first
> actually has syntax errors in it, let alone the logic issues
> everywhere.

  Examples?

> Unfortunately, I have yet to hear of the creator/maintainer responding to
> any requests to update it or take it down.

  The Advanced guide had a major revision a while ago.

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   Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/>
   Author:
   Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)