[FM Discuss] I have finished editing Introduction to the Command Line

Andy Oram andyo at oreilly.com
Tue Apr 7 20:05:30 PDT 2009


In a marathon writing session, I went ahead and added a whole section on Regular Expressions. It needs to be proofed now, although I tested everything non-trivial:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CommandLineIntro/RegularExpressions

Now I remember what makes these sections a bitch to write. Every tool implements regexes a little differently, and some things make no sense in grep or other simple tools.

I did a quick look at everything else and marked everything "complete" (except for Perl, whose author marked it incomplete, but I think it's actually ready to publish).

Of course, some sections weren't written or were kind of rough; I left them in the "unpublished" state.

I want to get away from this book now. I love it, but I need to focus on CiviCRM and other things. Besides tomorrow is the first seder.

Andy



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