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

[ac]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:30:18 -0400
Mel Wilson via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-07-17 at 13:39 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, David Thornton via talk wrote:
> > > If anyone says you need a man(1) just tell them you have better
> > > info(1).
> > > "Info" is a documentation system that ships with most uni* and
> > > often has actual examples.
> >     I much prefer the man pages to info.
> >     The man page is more (or at least as) easily searchable.
> But with passing time there's less and less there to search for.
> Recent man pages can be very perfunctory.  I was disappointed at the
> switch. Gnu created one of the worst hypertext browsers in the world
> and made that the standard.
> 
I guess most of us have not used man pages for so many years, I just did
a man turbostat, and that seems fine, with examples, and well laid
out... maybe it is only some of the man pages that have become
perfunctory? (an example would be super useful, so that I too may have
an opinion (or at least a POV)

Andre