From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
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Subject: Re: Getting to know BASH
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Date: 01 Aug 1998 16:16:06 GMT
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In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19980731165627 DOT 1baf0436 AT shadow DOT net>, Ralph Proctor
<ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net> writes:

>About what we last were talking about---you have the bash.1 doc file up and
>running and so do I, but this seems to me to be the WORST possible way to
>become introduced to BASH.
>
>I wonder if you or anybody else has an answer to this. I have some
>documents but I'm not sure enough to say if any one of them is the answer.
>Sure, the facts are there in bash.1, but if you find anything more
>rudimentary please let me know. But, I could be wrong, are you satisfied
>with the bash.1 manual as a starter?

I read and liked a book called _Portable Shell Programming_ by Blinn.  It's on
Bourne shell programming, so everything works on bash too.

--Ed (Myknees)