Re: Ok, then

2013-12-31 Thread LMH
These are good guides for learning something about shell scripting, http://linuxcommand.org/ http://www.howtogeek.com/67469/ This is also good, but more extensive and focused on bash, http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ One of the nicest things about learning to use cygwin and the

Re: Ok, then

2013-12-31 Thread Jonathan Martin
FANTASTIC! On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 5:20 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: My suggestion would be to take a look at some of the many books that try to introduce Unix and bash to new users and see how they have approached a good / logical order of presentation. cygwin itself is perhaps more directed

Re: Ok, then

2013-12-31 Thread Eliot Moss
My suggestion would be to take a look at some of the many books that try to introduce Unix and bash to new users and see how they have approached a good / logical order of presentation. cygwin itself is perhaps more directed at experienced users -- or in any case, it is making no particular attem

Re: Ok, then

2013-12-31 Thread Jonathan Martin
This is more philosophic than technical. I would like to put together a tutorial that groups unix command line tools according to complexity so that the easiest and most essential tools are presented first and the more complex tools are stated later, along with a short description that would c

Re: Ok, then

2013-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:56:37PM -0800, Jonathan Martin wrote: >If anything the only thing I am interested in through this entire >inquiry is cutting through some of this acceptable obfuscation. Andrew Schulman's advice to you still holds: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00396.html Plea

Re: Ok, then

2013-12-31 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear Jonathan -- I think it would help greatly, and perhaps moderate the tone on both sides, if you could say what you think/thought cygwin is and what you think/thought it is for. It seems to me that the bad feelings, or at least sharp tone, back and forth may be rooted in a misunderstanding on