Appendix N. Revision History

      This document first appeared as a 60-page HOWTO in the late spring
      of 2000. Since then, it has gone through quite a number of
      updates and revisions. This book could not have been written
      without the assistance of the Linux community, and especially
      of the volunteers of the Linux Documentation Project.
    

Here is the e-mail to the LDP requesting permission to submit version 0.1.

From thegrendel@theriver.com Sat Jun 10 09:05:33 2000 -0700 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 09:05:28 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Leo Cooper" <thegrendel@theriver.com> X-Sender: thegrendel@localhost To: ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org Subject: Permission to submit HOWTO Dear HOWTO Coordinator, I am working on and would like to submit to the LDP a HOWTO on the subject of "Bash Scripting" (shell scripting, using 'bash'). As it happens, I have been writing this document, off and on, for about the last eight months or so, and I could produce a first draft in ASCII text format in a matter of just a few more days. I began writing this out of frustration at being unable to find a decent book on shell scripting. I managed to locate some pretty good articles on various aspects of scripting, but nothing like a complete, beginning-to-end tutorial. Well, in keeping with my philosophy, if all else fails, do it yourself. As it stands, this proposed "Bash-Scripting HOWTO" would serve as a combination tutorial and reference, with the heavier emphasis on the tutorial. It assumes Linux experience, but only a very basic level of programming skills. Interspersed with the text are 79 illustrative example scripts of varying complexity, all liberally commented. There are even exercises for the reader. At this stage, I'm up to 18,000+ words (124k), and that's over 50 pages of text (whew!). I haven't mentioned that I've previously authored an LDP HOWTO, the "Software-Building HOWTO", which I wrote in Linuxdoc/SGML. I don't know if I could handle Docbook/SGML, and I'm glad you have volunteers to do the conversion. You people seem to have gotten on a more organized basis these last few months. Working with Greg Hankins and Tim Bynum was nice, but a professional team is even nicer. Anyhow, please advise. Mendel Cooper thegrendel@theriver.com