Re: [OS:N:] bash intro for high school students?

[Robert Citek <rwcitek alum calberkeley org>]

On Jun 16, 2005, at 3:35 AM, Dan Koren wrote:

> It would be nice to understand the reasons why one would
> prefer bash to other shells, in particular with respect with
> introducing high school students to computers.
>
> Why bash rather than ksh or perl?

You gotta start somewhere, and bash is the default shell with Knoppix  
and derivatives:

 - boot with CD into graphics mode
 - open terminal

Bingo! You're at a bash shell.  Pretty simple.  Alternatively:

 - boot: failsafe debug -b 1

You're at a bash shell as root exploring the boot process.

Regards,
- Robert
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