Re: PATH, HOME, and ~

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:28:29 +0100, NM Public wrote:
[...]
> There are tons of web pages about learning the basics of Unix 
> and I recently looked around for some good ones to include in 
> this section of my Power Pine page:
 
>   Using a Shell Script to Launch Pine
>   <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#script>
> 
> I recommend that you look at that section and follow the links 
> that I'm collecting there. 

Will do.

> At this point I don't know of one really good one for you Beartooth, but
> if I do find one, I'll let you know. And hopefully someone else will
> post links to a good starting point "with *theory* in it"!

> A possibility is one of these books: "The Unix Philosophy" or "Linux and
> the Unix Philosophy", which are both by Mike Gancarz. I bought the first
> one in 1994 when it was published and liked it. I just this moment
> discovered the second one, which was published in 2002. Since you have a
> philosophical bent Beartooth, maybe you should check out one or both of
> these books!

They're not the sort of thing the local county public library is apt to
have, and I have my doubts about the bookstores, but the later one is in
the Virginia Tech library; I'll try to get there, or ask my wife to bring
it home next time she goes, and look at it. Then I'll know whether I want
to own it.

Many thanks!

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