Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

[Duncan]

Graham Lawrence posted on Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:48:18 -0700 as excerpted:

[as Ron requested, please snip unrelated]

> I guess there are certain drawbacks to learning by google, you never
> know the quality of the source of an answer, nor whether it is entirely
> appropriate for the situation one is applying it to.  But in all other
> respects it knocks the socks off conventional learning methods.

Not to make this a discussion of politics, but there's a saying about 
democracy that applies here:  It sucks... until you start looking at the 
alternatives.

> I had
> started off with bash assuming what is true, that it waits for the
> completion of one command before starting the next. 

Interesting story, regrettably snipped for brevity.

FWIW, I learned bash from the bash appendix to Linux in a Nutshell... and 
by then diving right in and rewriting some of the initscripts Mandrake 
was shipping at the time (2002), so I got good experience right away on 
how bash scripting is actually used in the field.

IMO, that's one of the bad things about doing away with shell-based 
initscripts -- it's removing a VERY effective way to learn "practical 
bash in field use"!

For years I referred back to that appendix when I had a question on some 
minor detail.  I went thru two editions of Linux in a Nutshell, that 
way.  Now I know much of it, but still refer to the manpage or builtin 
command help occasionally.

> Last night I ran pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb 'filepath.nzb'
> as a single command, and it worked perfectly, so the problem must either
> arise from the && or the presentation of
>  \"${nzb[1]}\"  to pan, and later today I should have determined which
> it is.  Thank you again for all your excellent advice, and I do
> apologize that I keep bothering you with problems that derive from my
> fragmentary knowledge of the system.

Very good.  And it's not a bother, for sure!  It's a bit of a fun 
challenge to see if I've mastered it enough to explain, etc! =:^)

(I see further replies but have no time ATM to deal with them; headed for 
work.)

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