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The real 'Learn bash the hard way' is to read the man page top to bottom every 6 months. Ye gods, I've read it so many times… Also: lol at HN downvoting advice
by falsedan 9y ago
The real 'Learn bash the hard way' is to read the man page top to bottom every 6 months. Ye gods, I've read it so many times…
Also: lol at HN downvoting advice to read a tool's docs. Bash is terrible for a lot of reasons, but not because of its lack of informative documentation.
- carapace 9y agoYes, the bash man page is a treasure trove. Reading the article I kept thinking, "this is in the man page", over and over. There seem to be things like "Testing" and "RTFM" that many people (including me) resist until they actually try it and see for themselves. I can remember the feeling of revelation when I finally learned to try "$ man foo" on everything...
- jwilk 9y agoFrom the HN guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
- falsedan 9y agoI've read the guidelines; you can just downvote instead.