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Your best bet would be to pick up a few "Unix for Dummies" books, or
bookmark a good
beginner's unix tutorial on the web. For the cygwin specific, spend a day
or two putting a
custom doc together to describe the "cygwin specific" stuff. A "Cygwin for
Dummies" book
would probably not be a waste of someone's time - as more and more
"non-code-heads"
(like moi) are using cygwin with each passing day.
Brian Kelly
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>@cygwin.com on 06/26/2003 03:21:46
PM
Sent by: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
To: Cygwin-L <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire)
Subject: OT: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, or reference?
I'm advocating rolling out Cygwin as part of a production environment
based on Win2K systems.
Though I've got extensive 'Nix experience, most of the crew here
doesn't. I'm looking for a guide that covers the essentials of what are
needed to know to use Cygwin, for a legacy MS Windows / DOS user. Most
similar information GNU/Linux goes a bit too far into system
administration. What I'm really looking for would cover:
- The shell. Bash.
- Directories. '/' rather than '\'. Cygwin naming conventions.
Accessing legacy MS Windows paths.
- Essential commands. Likely: ls, cd, pwd, rm, less, cat.
- Getting help. man, apropos.
If anyone's familiar with same, please point me in the right direction.
Otherwise, I might be tempted to start something.
Peace.
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