Re: [GTALUG] Suggestions: A Book for a Beginner, new to the Linux Shell

Thanks, all. I'll definitely take a look at "The Linux Command Line" by William Shotts, as recommended by Daniel. While manpages or info pages might tell you how to use a command, they won't explain what they can do. Also, this particular learner is a dedicated book learner (and librarian). While info might have a few useful features, my main gripe with it is that to process an info page, you need to pull in texinfo. This in turn pulls in TeX Live as a dependency. TeX Live is a multi-gigabyte package. man (mostly*) only needs [gnt]roff, and that's tiny by comparison. cheers, Stewart *: (Yes, there's a UTF-8, LTR and [possibly] bidi-aware version of troff: http://repo.or.cz/neatroff.git)