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1. Russ Sharek (russsharek@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 05:20:28 UTC Russ Sharek

   Old school fool tries to learn old school tool.

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   • Russ Sharek (russsharek@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 05:21:15 UTC Russ Sharek

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     • pizza_pal

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     Never heard of it...

   • pizza_pal@mastodon.social's status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 05:21:15 UTC pizza_pal

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     @RussSharek it's not really that advanced (except all the examples are in C, but more to come on that...)

     it is a really good reference book by w. richard stevens. he wrote some other books abour UNIX but he died real young a long time ago in the 90s

     'APUE' explains pretty much all about how all the shell commands work. you don't have to know C (which I barely know), it really just tells you about all the UNIX system calls

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   • pizza_pal@mastodon.social's status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 05:21:16 UTC pizza_pal

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     @RussSharek have you read "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment"?

   • pizza_pal@mastodon.social's status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 05:21:21 UTC pizza_pal

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     @RussSharek it has a dillbert on the cover too

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   • pizza_pal@mastodon.social's status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 05:41:35 UTC pizza_pal

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     @RussSharek that's the thing about it, it may at first seem like it's "above your head" but after a while it makes more sense.

     also, you can basically ignore the code examples and just read the introductions to each section and get a lot of information about a lot of the coreutils.

     also, IMO, it is a masterful piece of technical writing and is actually kind of entertaining to read

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   • Russ Sharek (russsharek@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 05:41:36 UTC Russ Sharek

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     • pizza_pal

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     That sounds like both an interesting read and way above my head right now. I have made note of the title. Thank you!

   • Russ Sharek (russsharek@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 28-Jan-2022 06:44:06 UTC Russ Sharek

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     • pizza_pal

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     Good to know. I have a vague interest in learning to program, and a starting point like that might be really helpful.

     I'm still at the "excited my seven lines of shell script didn't burn down things" stage of learning.

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