Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Unsettling bash tutorial Date: 16 Mar 2026 05:48:51 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <10otpi4$1opu8$3@dont-email.me> <10otrqi$1p9ft$1@dont-email.me> <10ou2q9$1qp29$1@dont-email.me> <10p3fhf$5tmi$1@dont-email.me> <10p3soo$9ojl$2@dont-email.me> <10p4nqe$jufq$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net zTsAxlO2W+jlwya/G+rTgg4d/VO/AfnAKtX+duh2uWEsfadh6B Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ig7YkI7zuqyqgGmYfMpo9FpjBMQ= sha256:451z+l0lgJY3XDJy6DGHtkOPqUVOq7Qjs6xPBOWJlpc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.unix.shell:26766 comp.os.linux.misc:83072 On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:36:31 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Biggest thing I ever wrote in Bash was a version of my company backup > plan, about 600 active lines. However the job was kind of 'modular' > so I could copy and slightly tweak the backup sections above. It > worked fine, but was very annoying to mod. Went back to a Python, > then Pascal, version. All I've ever done w.r.t bash is tweaks to .bashrc. By the time I reluctantly moved to bash I was already using Python for most tasks. Didn't need to learn a new shell. I stumble into enough unwanted learning experiences. I install Damn Small Linux in a VM on the Fedora box. No problem. The terminal is URxvt and the damn thing was semi-transparent. .Xresources includes a file down the .config rathole that had transparent set to false. However there's also a 'shade' that was set to 50 which apparently means half-transparent. 0 did the trick. It also gives you a choice of Fluxbox or JWM. DSL has gotten fatter since its reboot and is up to 900 MB which still isn't bad in the time of 4 GB+ isos.