Resources

• Advanced Bash Scripting HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

• O'Reilly & Associates:

  • Learning the Bash Shell, 2nd Edition
  • Essential System Administration, 3rd edition

• Documentation:

  • Bash man page
  • "help" output for shell built-ins,
  • command --help for quick usage
  • man and info pages for other commands (I recommed "pinfo" for info viewing)
  • /usr/share/doc/* for certain commands (gawk, bash, etc)

• Read scripts in your distro (example, /etc/rc.d stuff)

• Google!

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