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I consider myself reasonably proficient in the shell, but I learned something just from your sample pages (process substitution). Purchased!
by justusthane 1y ago
I consider myself reasonably proficient in the shell, but I learned something just from your sample pages (process substitution). Purchased!
- petr25102018 1y agoThanks!
- teddyh 1y agoIf you have not skimmed through the manual of bash¹ enough to learn about process substitutions, what makes you think you would read a book? 1. <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html>
- cortesoft 1y agoMaybe because they didn't think to?
- mtlynch 1y agoDifferent people prefer different formats for information. Some people prefer to read the manual from start to finish while others learn better seeing the same concepts in a hands-on tutorial. From reading the sample of OP's book, it seems far more practical and accessible than the bash manual, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people would read OP's book that have no interest in reading the bash manual cover to cover.
- justusthane 1y agoBecause generally a manual is “here is every single detail of this thing”, while a book like this is “here’s an overview of the particularly useful stuff.” I’ll go to the manual if I’m trying to understand how a particular thing works, or how to do a particular thing, but it’s not as useful to me for feature discovery.