As I said, I'm working on Linux Phrasebook, 2nd Edition.

I'm thinking of removing the chapter on Windows Networking & replacing it with a chapter on basic scripting.

So I'd take these commands out:
* nmblookup
* smbclient
* smbmount
* smbumount

And I'd add a chapter that covers these:
* echo
* test
* seq
* for
* while
* & some others

Does this sound cool? Does anyone still use or give a crap about the SMB/CIFS commands? I have to drop something if I want to add something, & I'd like to add a chapter on scripting, so it seemed OK to drop the chapter on Windows networking.

BTW - I'm dropping the chapter on printing & adding a new one on Manipulating Text Files (wc, nl, fmt, cut, paste, sort, uniq, diff, tr, sed, awk), which I think is a great trade off.

Opinions requested.

Scott
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