[kwlug-disc] possible presentation ideas

[CrankyOldBugger]

I'd live to see an advanced bash presentation as well.


On Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 11:07 AM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc, <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Advanced bash would be lovely. It seems to me that tutorials about bash
> skip important context of unix shell.
>
> Can you explain fundamental context of where and how each of function
> outputs are directed. Without this intuitive simple knowledge I find it
> difficult to assemble proper conditionals. Cause there is return value,
> out, err out. How are these picked up and used. Show this on making
> conditionals.
>
> Everything else should trivially follow: if, for, differences between '
> and ", functions and local variables. And examples can be done to
> reiterate function output and pickup flow. It is trivial to google for
> how if or for looks, but none of tutorial concentrate on
> what-comes-where context of unix functions, making it frustrating to
> write a non-hello-world things.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On 2018-12-14 9:45 p.m., tomg at sentex.ca wrote:
> > Greetings LUG members!
> >
> > Here's some things I'm weak on in Linux despite decades of
> > using it and could possibly use a presentation on:
> >
> > AWK.  I haven't used this yet.
> >
> > Advanced SED.
> >
> > Advanced VI or VIM.
> >
> > Advanced BASH.
> >
> > Even RCS or CVS.
> >
> > How GRUB works and what the difference between installing it
> > and updating it is, especially, differences from LILO or rEFInd.
> >
> > How (U)EFI works.
> >
> > How GUID partition tables work on Linux.
> >
> > All the 10 new filesystems, /sys this /dev/thing that.  To be
> > honest I've never understood the point of devfs or udevd either.
> >
> > What sysfs is and how it works and why it exists.
> >
> > I just went over the past meeting list of KWLUG (and found a lot of
> > stuff I was interested in) but I don't think any of these have been
> > covered.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Also there could be a link to the kwlug-announce mailing list on the
> > home page, I only found out about it when someone mentioned it here
> > on this list.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
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> Mikalai Birukou
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