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Nice Job.. Looks Good
by tein - Feb 16th 2007 09:58:06
I found this guide very usefull.. Thanks for working on it..
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PDF Download Site
by M. Leo Cooper - Feb 15th 2007 12:59:08
The URL of the preferred download site for the pdf version of the ABS Guide
is:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide.pdf
This version is specially book-formatted for duplex printing
and is usually more up-to-date than the version you can download
from the LDP site. Note that it's a 2.6 MB download.
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The Bash shell contains no debugger, nor even any debugging-specific commands or constructs?
by R. Bernstein - Dec 22nd 2006 17:36:21
Chapter 29. Debugging starts out:
The Bash shell contains no debugger, nor even any debugging-specific
commands or constructs.
This sentence has long been overly unfair. When I contacted the author
about this a long time ago, he eventually added what I think was a
niggardly footnote about my debugger partially making up for this
lack.
In the past, I just chalked this comment up to inattentiveness of the
author with respect to keeping the document up to date, (and possibly some
ignorance) and feeling that perhaps the document was geared to the vast
number possible people using BASH before version 2.05b.
But version 2.05b which came out over 4 years ago and this document has
since undergone several revisions.
Bash 2.05b changed the semantics of TRAP DEBUG to run before a
statement rather than after as happens in the other TRAP statements.
That change was made to specifically support debugging.
My patched version of 2.05b also added a number of other of things
specifically to add debugging support and/or better error reporting. These
were incorporated into version 3.0 which came out over 2 years
ago.
So if you look at the changes since 2.05a in the NEWS file that comes
with BASH, you'll see a number of changes specifically to support
debugging.
It is also a bit ironic that later revisions to this section of the
scripting guide make use of TRAP DEBUG, and caller() while still
maintaining at the outset that there are no such debugging-specific
commands.
At the end of the debugging section is a box that reads "Version 3 of
Bash adds the following special variables for use by the debugger".
But gee, didn't we say there was no debugger? Anyway, that box is missing
FUNCNAME.
For that Bash debugger which "partially makes up for this lack", see the bash debugger homepage or the bash debugger
documentation.
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Re: The Bash shell contains no debugger, nor even any debugging-specific commands or constructs?
by M. Leo Cooper - Dec 23rd 2006 09:15:12
> This sentence has long been overly
> unfair. When I contacted the author
> about this a long time ago, he
> eventually added what I think was a
> niggardly footnote about my debugger
> partially making up for this lack.
>
The above comment speaks for itself. I leave it to the readers to judge
whether it is fair and objective or self-serving.
M.C.
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file sentas [text/plain]
by WF - Jan 25th 2004 23:45:58
The tarball is served as a [text/plain] file so that it shows up as garbage
in my browser.
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Re: file sentas [text/plain]
by M. Leo Cooper - Feb 16th 2004 20:38:07
> The tarball is served as a [text/plain]
> file so that it shows up as garbage in
> my browser.
Problems of this nature are *inevitably* caused by trying to download in
text mode. You *must* download a binary file in *binary* mode. Or, try
using 'wget' to download the file.
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Good job! Where is the PDF?
by mattiasw - May 15th 2003 22:55:30
I like your guide, tested it and found the answers!
It would be very helpful if you had a PDF-version. PDF are easy to search
and is just a single small file.
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Re: Good job! Where is the PDF?
by M. Leo Cooper - May 16th 2003 09:24:05
> I like your guide, tested it and found
> the answers!
>
> It would be very helpful if you had a
> PDF-version. PDF are easy to search and
> is just a single small file.
>
There is indeed a pdf version available:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
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Re: Good job! Where is the PDF?
by M. Leo Cooper - Dec 25th 2006 10:11:28
> There is indeed a pdf version
> available:
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
A mirror pdf download site is:
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http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide.pdf
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This is actually an "improved" pdf, formatted for two-sided printing.
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Very helpful guide !!!!
by aanderud - Nov 23rd 2002 19:17:29
Hey, I just want to say that this scripting guide is the most helpful one
I've seen. Talk about comprehensive, and full of examples -- not just man
page style descriptions, but really well commented examples in just about
all areas. I love it, and I've given copies to all of my colleagues.
Thank you very much.
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very useful
by stefan - Aug 3rd 2002 17:56:09
I didn't use the tutorial for learning step by step, but I had two
questions and I found the answers immediately and an extra answer I didn't
search for.
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Testing
by Alfons Hoogervorst - Jun 17th 2002 16:34:12
Where is the bleeding edge / testing branch? :-)
(Great job!)
--
the trees the birds the air the grass the water
the flies the trees
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Re: Testing
by M. Leo Cooper - Jun 18th 2002 16:13:19
> Where is the bleeding edge / testing
> branch? :-)
The "bleeding edge" branch is the 'tar/BZ2' link, above. It will
generally run anywhere from a few days to a couple of months ahead of the
main release on the LDP site.
Thanks for the compliment, BTW.
---(project author/owner)
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