Hi Andrew, I guess parsing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file and sending an email notification is a good one. But don't you think, that .bashrc concept and inclusion of tasks in it will be quite confusing and complicated for a beginner? I will have to explain about login and non-login shell, startup scripts which will make them more confusing. Don't you think?
Regards, Kurian Thayil. On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Andrew Reid <rei...@bellatlantic.net>wrote: > 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. > > -- A. > -- > Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
