[IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

[Sean DALY]

Caryl, the best intro I know of is by Machtelt Garrels (Tille), whom I
had the honor of meeting at FOSDEM a couple of years ago:
http://tille.garrels.be/training/bash/

An OpenOffice presentation version of her guide is available too:
http://tille.garrels.be/training/bash/BGB.odp

The O'Reilly book (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009656) is an
excellent resource, I have written all over the margins of my copy.

Finally, the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
(http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html) is an excellent resource with plenty of
examples.

There are a few Mac OSX-specific quirks, but none worth mentioning
when starting out. There is however a neat trick: a file or folder can
be dragged from a Finder window into a Terminal window where the path
will be expanded, saving countless seconds of typing time (and typos).

Hope this helps.

Sean



On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Lucian and All,
>
> Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked.  Now that leads to another question.
> If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the image-writer-mac
> file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G. posted
> (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that?  I have copies of that
> download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD.
>
> Caryl
>
> P.S. Is there a handy dandy guide to commands for the Mac Terminal anywhere?
> Sort of an "Idiot's Guide to the Mac Terminal" or "The Mac Terminal for
> Dummies?"
>
>> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0100
>> From: lucian.branescu at gmail.com
>> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
>> CC: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org;
>> support-gang at laptop.org; support-gang at lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News
>>
>> Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be
>> done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to
>> your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside.
>> Then the second command does the actual image writing.
>>
>> On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi James,
>> >
>> >> You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type
>> >>
>> >> cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso
>> >>
>> >> Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you
>> >> please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Right... I was trying to open it in a Finder window.  I don't have a lot
>> > of
>> > experience with the terminal. Do I type in exactly what you have above
>> > including the ; or is is that a punctuation?
>> >
>> > I'll try it tomorrow. It's about midnight here.
>> >
>> > Caryl
>> >
>> >> --
>> >> James Cameron
>> >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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