[FM Discuss] [SPAM] Discuss Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5

[Andy Oram]

I don't believe "Introduction to the Command Line" is the place to discuss programs that happen to accept user input on the command line. There should be a programming book for that. Certainly, "Introduction to the Command Line" covers more than bash. If there is a useful program that CLI users tend to invoke--grep or sed, for instance--it can be described in the book. But the book doesn't describe how to write your own grep or sed program. If is were, itt could be extended to be a programming manual for all kinds of programs.

Andy

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From: "Bill McConnaughey" <mcconnau at biochem.wustl.edu>
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Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 10:38:11 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] [SPAM]  Discuss Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5

Adam asked for the link to my new chapter-- I guess that would be
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CommandLineIntro/CreatingANewCommandInterpreter
I'm going to make some revisions, but first I want to know how we are 
handling code exerpts and the like, for which we need a convient way to 
get them out of the manual.