Re: [tlug] bash question

[Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> 
> Sorry to say this, JC, but this is a severe case of lack-of-RTFMing-before-
> posting.

No, it was not for lack of RTFM'ing. I was for lack of spotting the 
semi-colon. What kind of a programming language makes if a separate 
statement from the then part?

Seriously, I did RTFM and Google and even have a great book on shell 
scripting. I just don't *do* shell scripting and figured my problem was 
in how I was using the comparison operator.

It was a simple typo, which made it even more difficult for me to spot.

> A simple Google search would have turned up both of these excellent documents
> on Bash scripting:

Could you post these links again as they didn't make it through in your 
first post.

> Please do your homework in the future.

Not start a flame war, but didn't we just get a sed question that was 
answered by many people with many different solution with nobody saying 
"man sed or do some Googling".

<rant>
I've gotten used to the level of bitterness on this list so I *do* 
research my own questions before I post. Trust me, tlug is not the first 
thing I try.

Some people find some the answers to some questions posted just *so* 
obvious that they assume the poster didn't do any research on his own. 
Just because the answer is obvious to someone doesn't mean it was 
obvious to the poster. Of course the answer is obvious the expert ... 
but not to the newbie.

Some people just get some parts (or maybe all) parts of Linux and don't 
quite get some (or none) of the other parts. For all we know I could be 
the world's greatest Lisp programmer but just not be able to write a 
single line of bash script because I just can't get the language. (Not 
that I was ever very good at Lisp either ;)

This was not directed at Josh; I just wanted to point out that there is 
no correlation with how easy the answer to a question appears to you and 
the amount of work the person who posted the question put into finding 
the answer on his own.
</rant>

Jc