Introduction (Bash Newbies)

March 11, 2008 meeting, Podcast number 0009, Bash Shell Scripting for Newbies: Introduction.

This was the first session, so there was a complete lack of preparation on Jās' part, since the idea had just surfaced a couple days prior to this meeting. If you listen to the recording, here are some notes from that session:

Done on the fly.

= Example 1:  = /usr/bin/php <<EOF php_stuff ... EOF # or:
 * 1) !/bin/bash
 * 1) This is to backup my php site
 * 1) Next line begins a "here" document.
 * 1) /usr/bin/php -f interface.php

Another "here" document example
/usr/bin/php <<junk anything_between junk

NOTE: I do not know PHP, so the example above may be completely incorrect.