[COFF] 21st Century Equivalent to 'learn'?

[John P. Linderman]

Marc Rochkind used to recommend reading the entire UNIX manual each year.
That was good advice in the late 70's, but it would be hopelessly
impractical now, quite beyond the lack of a manual to read. There are just
too many commands and libraries. A valuable service would be to identify
the most useful tools. Those in the old manuals would be an interesting
starting point, but I can't remember when I last used "ar" command, which I
mostly used to pack multiple files into a single one to save inodes and
wasted file system space, neither of which matter any more. If there were a
corpus of contemporary shell scripts, identifying the most used commands
could be interesting. Perl's CPAN (comprehensive perl archive network)
could be a corpus of scripts from which the most commonly used system calls
could be extracted.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 8:00 PM Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 01:49:25PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm looking for an interactive tool to help students learn the
> > Unix/Linux command line. I still remember the "learn" tool. Is there an
> > equivalent for current systems?
> > Thanks in advance for any tips/pointers.
>
> I've made a start with a new version of a "learn"ing tool. It uses tmux
> to have a pane of instructions and a pane where the user enters commands.
> Link to the repo is:
> https://github.com/DoctorWkt/tlearn/blob/master/tlearn
>
> This is all protoyping at present. I'd love any ideas & suggestions.
>
> Cheers, Warren
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