I'd be interested in bash as a full length presentation. I think starting from the ground up to advanced would be good. Every good Linux administrator has good bash (or perl) scripting knowledge for writing quick scripts on the fly. Bash++ for me. Maybe we could all throw some real world examples and use bash to tackle the problem, or something. I know learning something and then being able to apply it isn't always easy. Maybe, writing a script that writes the output of ps aaauuuxxx to a file, as well as iostat, and also sends me an SMS to my cell phone. :)
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dustin Laurence</b> <<a href="mailto:dustin@laurences.net">dustin@laurences.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OK, folks, I haven't been doing Cool Tools topics and not enough people<br>have picked up the slack. I offered to do a "how to get associative<br>arrays in shell even though it doesn't have associative arrays" quickie
<br>next time, but perhaps nobody wants to see that? Basically, it amounts<br>to how to make the equivalent of this work:<br><br>array["key"] = "value" # Associate "value" with "key"
<br>var="$array["key"]" # Retrieve "value" and store in $var<br><br>though obviously with a very different syntax.<br><br>However, if this is going to be an eye-glazer for everyone I won't
<br>bother. Does anyone care about shell scripting that doesn't already<br>know it? We could actually do "shell scripting from scratch" as either<br>a main presentation or as a series of shorts. Would anyone care? The
<br>only reason to go to the trouble is if there is an interested audience.<br><br>More generally, it would be useful if people would mention what sorts of<br>topics would help them. What problems do people actually have that
<br>*might* be doable in ten minutes? What topics do people want for a<br>full-length presentation?<br><br>Dustin<br><br>--<br> "Intolerance? The *truth* is intolerant." -- le Faux<br><br>The small binary attachment on every message I send is my PGP digital
<br>signature, not a virus. If you don't know what that is, you can ignore it.<br>If you do, my keyserver is <a href="http://pgp.mit.edu">pgp.mit.edu</a>.<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew G