Programming...

[chris-harry]

ok... i need to know, which programing thing does knoppix use... eg C++, C... and then... I need some tutorals on how to program this stuff... I have had programming experiance before so i will learn... please help me.

[garyng]

because this is a typical linux distro, you need to know :

1. shell script (try man sh for help)
2. C (for kernel compilation and modification)
3. Makefile script
4. Perl (for many deb packages)
5. python(someone packages use that)
6. C++(some packages use that)
7. tcl(some packages use that)

It is a matter of, what do you want to do? If you want to customize some packages, you have to follow what language it use. If you want to write something from scratch, quick and dirty, it would be shell script/Perl/Python. You want to write kernel modules, it must be C.

Don't know if this is the answer you want.

[user unknown]

knoppix uses primarly bash.
So I would try man bash - not man sh.
At freshmeat you find the excellent 'advanced bash scripting guide'.

From inside the scripts you use sed, awk, and the other stuff mentioned by garyng.

[chris-harry]

cool... thanks people...

[RoyalMail]

cool... thanks people... :D

Ignore the man pages to start with; they're not designed as training material. For info on the bash shell there's lots on:
http://tldp.org/cgi-bin/ldpsrch.cgi

Regs, RM.