Shell HOWTO

[jim bidebo]

Hi

Im looking for a brief and easy HOWTO USE the UNIX-Shell documents, either on the posix-shell or the kornshell. Atm i seam to have alot of users that dont use the shell, and i think that it would get a lot more efficient if the did, and system resource saving aswell.

But to be able to get them to use the shell, i need some starter-docs to give them. Ive search around the net but all i can find is programming docs, and something tells me that they arnt ready for that just yet =) (I do think they can learn to use the shell, since most of my users are working with serious calculations and CAD-programs)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jim:

The "Shells: User's Guide" might work:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90046/B2355-90046.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Yogeeraj_1]

hello,

Step 1:
http://www.gidgie.com/id126.htm
:)

Step 2:
http://home.echo-on.net/~hgibson/UnixCommandLine-HOWTO/UnixCommandLine-HOWTO-1.html

these are the pages i give to trainees...
Hope this helps!

Best Regards
Yogeeraj

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The online "Shells User Guides " from docs.hp.com is one source. I would also look at O'reilly - they make excellent tutorials on the shell and in general use of UNIX from a user's perspectrive. From experience, I can tell you that many engineers/technical users will try to use the csh because many of their examples will be written in csh. I've yet to find an valid reason (at least since the Bourne shell is hardly used anymore) to use csh for anything. Make sure that your users know that sh is a powerful version of a POSIX shell and is Korn compatible.

[Ross Zubritski]

You cannot go wrong with any O'Reilly publication, IMHO.

Regards,

RZ

[Shannon Petry]

UNIX in a nutshell is a very good book for just this purpose. The front of the book is basic unix commands and basic arguments. After this, there are small light weight sections on all major shells, then a bit on awk and on sed.

Great book for entry level people with little Unix knowledge. Every site I work at has at least 2 copies.

Regards,
Shannon Petry

[John Meissner]

a good book I read when I started using Unix was:

A complete idiot's guide to Unix

it's easy reading and very informative. I don't know the author off the top of my head but it's a bright orange book... pretty hard to miss.

[Wilfred Chau_1]

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/aixuser/usrosdev/korn_shell.htm

http://www.codebox.8m.com/shellscripting.htm