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[randomdreams]

Back in the day, AIX had a neat command: 'learn'. You'd type it in, and it would take you through a reasonably well-structured process of exercises to get acquainted with the unix commandline. Does anyone else remember this? Does anyone know if it got ported to any other systems? It's difficult to search for because there are so many hits for learning unix that aren't it. I do get hits on manpages for AIX: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_aix_71/com.ibm.aix.cmds3/learn.htm but none about if it was ever available as a separate package or ported to other flavors of unix.

Comments

[tylik]

.....no!

Six year old me feels totally robbed. Robbed!

[ivy]

I also have never heard of this but it's brilliant!

[secretagentmoof]

Don't remember that.

Then again, my experiences with AIX make me violently allergic to running man animations and uneasy around three digit result codes on seven-segment displays.

[altamira16]

I never knew this about AIX.

[randomdreams]

It's how I learned the rudiments of c programming!

[elainegrey]

It certainly didn't make it to IRIX, which took system V and added BSD so that half the commands had a slightly different syntax pattern from the other half.

[randomdreams]

I remember briefly using IRIX, but can't remember why. At that point I was at school, where the mainframe was AIX, and working at HP, using HPUX. (aiee.)