On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:27:08PM +0530, 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 ma
> The CL really shines with complex tasks, and this is where people's eyes glaze
> over. For example, I convert a directory of .wav files to .mp3 files on a
I think of it more that the cl shines when doing multi-step tasks.
"Find all the .odt files on the hard drive" is just as easy through
gui o
On Saturday 25 April 2009 12:57 pm, 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 th
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.
>
>
>
> Original Message
>From: kurianmtha...@gmail.com
>To: sou...@gmail.com
>Subject: Re: Bash Session
>Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:59:11 +0530
>
>>Hi Jeff,
>>
>>You are correct. Our state has implemented GNU/Linux in schools and
>they use
On Saturday 25 April 2009 22:24:15 Kurian Thayil wrote:
> 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
> begin
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:57:08PM EDT, 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
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:27:08 +0530
Kurian Thayil wrote:
> Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that will
> make them more interesting and love command line.
>
to do this, i think it is a good idea to contrast cl and gui.
for instance, say you have a bunch of .txt files in a
Hi Jeff,
You are correct. Our state has implemented GNU/Linux in schools and they use
a customized Debian GNU/Linux for that. There must be some method/way which
actually shows them the power of CLI and BASH, and interesting for them.
Regards,
Kurian Thayil.
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jef
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, startu
I'd suggest any tasks that they frequently do by hand. What do school
teachers in your community use their Linux machines for? Any way to
speed that up? Parsing text files perhaps, doing file conversions or
concatenating documents they might have to deal with (pdfs?) or
something like that?
Typ
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 the
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