Advanced Bash tutorial

[jabra at ccs.neu.edu (Joshua D. Abraham)]

On 03.Feb.2007 10:27AM -0500, David Kramer wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 07:53:03 -0500
> > "James Kramer" <kramerjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Unix/Linux is incredible.  I am always amazed at how fast and easy it is to
> >> develop sophisticated software simply by piping different programs together
> >> using simple Bash commands.
> > Unix commands were designed to be a toolbox. A number of simple
> > command, each taking input from stdin and sending output to stdout. It
> > is this simplicity and the pipe concept that makes Unix/Linux so
> > powerful. 
> 
> UNIX is like a series of tubes...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

Two years ago I was thinking it would be great to have a script
take care of joinging the wireless network using a config based
on precedence similar to Windows XP, but better.

I spent like 3 days writing it and I'm impressed daily by the
number of people downloading it.

It's called getwifi, it is written in bash shell. I felt Perl was
a bit extreme for a requirement for something that feels like
a shell script.

For those who are interested:

http://getwifi.sf.net

I'll probably add WPA and WPA 2 this summer.

-- 
Joshua D. Abraham
Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science
www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jabra

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