Bash scripting
If you do not wish to have members of the opposite sex falling at your feet for you ultimate control over all things linuxy then you can safely disregard this message.
Bash scripting is one of, if not THE greatest reason that bash is great. It allows for quick and easy scripts that would take much longer to implement in other programming languages.
A quick starter guide is available here.
One thing to remember is that scripts are not bound to the terminal, they can use basic gui’s as well! More on that later…
May the script be with you!
George Bunyan
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New Linux User » Linux console codes
Jan 22, 2007 at 7:57 pm
[…] Firstly is the beep. Try opening a terminal window and pressing Control + G. You should hear the system beep now. Not very useful is it. What we want to do is include that in our shell scripts. To do this we need to insert the special character. This is done by pressing Control + V followed by Control + G. You should see a ^G appear. Note that this is not two characters but rather one special character represented by ^G, so you must follow the Control + V, Control + G routine to insert it. […]
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