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by bittercynic 3920 days ago
What do you have to do to get at the content?
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You should just be able to scroll down. If that doesn't work, send an email to the address in my profile with details on exactly what's confusing you. For future iterations of the UI, I'm looking at adding access to the table of contents as well.

Update: You probably just need to enable JavaScript, as the Learn Enough tutorials use the Softcover system (http://softcover.io/), which stores the HTML on S3 and uses JavaScript to pull it in dynamically.

By the way, the other replies to this comment refer to Mark Bates's Conquering the Command Line [1], which is a completely different product.

[1]: http://conqueringthecommandline.com/book

Maybe whip up some curl commands in a command line, post-processed with sed and awk.

I enabled JS from a couple of domains, then gave up and backbuttoned out.

Here is the table of contents to make things a bit easier so you won't have to go through all the URLs: https://softcover.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/8/unix_commands...
This is the ToC for a different book.
Use the command line to get the URLs for each chapter?

  Go to conqueringthecommandline.com/book
  Save the page source
  Insert the filename into the script below
  Alternatively, omit filename and pipe the source of the page to the script 

  Works with BSD sed as well as GNU sed; first lesson: portability

   a=$(printf '\004')
   sed 's/s3_url/'"$a"'&/' \
   |tr '\004' '\012' \
   |exec sed '
   s/\\u0026/\&/g;
   s/.*s3_url.:.//g;
   s/\".*//g;
   /https:.*Amz/!d;
   ' filename
I do not recommend this "book". Look at the hoops they make readers jump through. Try grymoire.com; much better and no Javascript required
You appear to be confusing two different documents. The OP refers to http://learnenough.com/command-line, not http://conqueringthecommandline.com/book.
Indeed. My apologies. Instructions to get the URL to the Hartl draft are the same, except:

  Substitute "learnenough.com/command-line" for "conqueringthecommandline.com/book"
 
Script will work just the same.