prerequisites of knowledge

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Oct 16, 2011, at 9:14 PM, trout swim wrote:

> hello
> i have looked at the FAQ in Macports and in the wiki and have yet to see any prerequisites for a persons knowledge base and that persons ability to work with the Bash command line or conditional programming.
> In the last few years while i have self taught in the http document mark up and dynamic aspects in PHP, MySQL, and some Javascript i have come to see a lot of screaming "help me" in forums as well as a lot of miss leading dog`y do.
> I have a few books in the Mac area of Unix, but i see it all boils down to the shell. either bash or korn or any other that i cannot remember at this time of writing.
> I have found the GNU web page http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/bash.html and i am studying that.
> 
> So if there were any prerequisites written some where in relationship to the Macports project would those prerequisites boil down to being comfortable with simple commands and complex commands using a host of predefined command line characters in conjunction with supporting options and any and all of the characters and their pre defined uses.   

I believe "sudo" and "port" are the only required commands for a standard MacPorts install. "man" can be useful command for a quick reference to the "port" command syntax.

$ man port


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)