Eben King wrote:
> Anything you can use interactively you can use as a scripting laguage and
> vice versa (I believe). Using perl as your login shell is perverse and
> difficult, but I believe it is possible. There are lots of scripts written
> in sh/ash/bsh/zsh/bash/ksh/pdksh, and they are popular login shells too.
> "sh" -> "shell" after all...
HA! I thought there were only 3 or 4! Are those
all in a standard kernel? That little distro I've
been playing around with defaults to bash....HMmm,
I'll have to google that!
> It's gotten easier since Linux started using GNU's toolchain almost
> exclusively. "./configure", "make", "su -c 'make install'".
Hmmm, that doesn't look toointimidating..I think I
can handle that...:) (complete newbie showing through)
>>Basically I'm shooting for a 'roll your own' or 'Linux from scratch' level
>>of skill....
>
>
> There's a distro called "Linux from scratch":
>
> http://lfs.crash404.com/lfs/news.html
>
> See if that meets your needs.
!!!! That looks great! Thanks! and much easier for
a newbie like me I would think since they are
including alot of standard things ahead of time.....
>>anyway, would o'reilly's bash scripting book be a good place to start or a
>>Perl book?
>
>
> If you know basic Linux, then perl is OK, but I'd get a handle on the basics
> first.
A Linux book then....will do..thanks!
Chris
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