Meeting-20081213
WPLUG will have a General User Meeting and presentation on Saturday, December 13th, starting at 10am at the Wilkins School Community Center.
Schedule for the Day
9:45am - Setup
10:00am - Business Meeting starts
10:30am - Featured Presentation
Noon - Meeting ends, everyone out
Speaker/Presentation
Greg Alheid will be speaking about shell scripting.
Questions about shell scripting (pre-meeting):
Who asked
- Question(s)
Beth Lynn Eicher
- How do you decide that your text processing task is too complex for shell scripting (with awk and sed) causing you to use perl/python/ruby instead?
- What are the advantages of bash over other shells?
Jon Daniel
- Coming from someone who has mainly done development in C/java/php, what kind of features/strengths do shell scripts have over writing a php/python/perl script to accomplish the same task? Is it anything other ubiquity?
- What are the major differences between the shells (sh/bash/tcsh/csh)?
Jim Harris
- I have multi step shell instructions to update a friends Linux box ... how do I put it in a script so that they can click on a button or should I put it in a crontab and how?
Your name here
- Your first question
- Your second question
Bonus Event
Contest: Who's got the best .bash_profile or .bashrc? Here's how it works:
- Create a login for yourself on the WPLUG wiki if you don't already have one.
- Create a wiki page User:Yourlogin/.bashrc or User:Yourlogin/.bash_profile. For the contents of that page, add [[Category:.bashrc]] to the top of your entry.
- Put a single space before each line if you don't want the wiki to try to format your file (or surround your entire script with <pre></pre> tags).
Here's an example:
If you use csh or zsh or fish or whatever, that's great. Just make sure its in the [[Category:.bashrc]] so it shows up in the list. At the meeting, we'll go through them, and informally grade them for style, flamboyance, utility, etc. We'll take a vote to see who has the best one, and the winner will get either a $15 gift card from a coffee shop, or all the Visual Basic references on my book shelf. If we can get together some more swag, there may be a prize for least obfuscated, most obfuscated, etc.
You don't have to attend to win the best prize -- bragging rights. But you do have to attend to win any of the tangible prizes.
One rule -- for this competition, you can't cheat and look at other peoples posts on the wiki to bolster your own entry. We're on the honor system. However, after the competition, we'll consider all entries GPL, and anything you can steal is fair game for the next competition, whenever we have it.
Meeting Staff
If you would like to volunteer to assist with this meeting, please add your name to one or more of the categories below.
- Host: Your name here
- Co-Host: Your name here
- Donuts: Vance Kochenderfer
- Setup: Beth Lynn Eicher (bringing projector)
- Clean Up: Vance Kochenderfer, Your name here