Today brought more advanced shell scripting as I wrangled with administering users on the new site. This brought me in contact with learning Sed and Awk, as well as some more complicated bash tutorials.

So far I'm finding shell scripting an easy, yet powerful, mechanism for automating web site administration. I'm currently writing a mini-tutorial on what I'm setting up, in case anyone else is interested in creating a development system for web design on their own server.

Sed and Awk Micro-Primer - http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/sedawk.html

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

This was in the OpenBSD misc@ mailing list today:

**Subject: OpenBSD sucks **

It really sucks. it is slow.

And one of the responses:

It really sucks. it is slow.

Not any more: http://marc.info/?m=118046279204104

Looks like I won't be installing OpenBSD on any old i386 systems. God speed*.

• As long as 'God Speed' isn't any faster than 40mhz

I had to come up with a way to run a bunch of rsync commands, and the only shell scripts I've ever really made have been extremely simple (just for running wine commands mostly). Since I needed to make what amounted to a small program for OpenBSD, I headed to Google and found a great shell scripting site:

 http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/index.html

It looks like some other sites have this information as well, but this site was closest to the top without being bombarded with ads.