On Saturday 25 April 2009 12:57:08 Kurian Thayil wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG community.
> Audience will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are
> beginners. Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that
> will make them more interesting and love command line. Need some
> suggestions.
>
> Its always difficult to think simple and easy. :-) So I've quite confused
> here on how and what to present. Any help?????
I'd focus on a variety of contexts where scripting is
handy -- .bashrc and cron leap to mind.
What can you do in your .bashrc file? Set environment
variables, extend/modify your path, detect the local
architecture, and so forth.
What's useful in cron? Parse /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow
and send yourself an e-mail expiry notice, maybe.
Automatic creation and testing of back-ups, maybe.
Simple scripts, and in an environment (especially in .bashrc)
where other tools just aren't as good.
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