Two really, really good books for shell programming
(i) Portable shell programming - Bruce Blinn - ISBN 0134514947
This book is a program by example book and is the best shell script
reference I've come across. It covers bourne shell, ie. /bin/sh, which
is as far as I know is a subset of bash. It focuses on portability so
your script would run on many different implementations of the bourne
shell ( plus the bourne shell is garanteed to be on every UNIX OS).
This is a very good book if you know I little programming but you're new
to shell script. It is a very small book, 250 pages, but I'll tell you
this is the only book from my programming collection I never let out of
my sight.
(ii) UNIX Shells by example - Ellie Quigley - ISBN 0130212229
Covers the most common UNIX shells, korne, C, bourne (ksh, csh, sh).
Covers the interative use and scripting of these shells. Covers common
shell commons like sed, awk. It's a very good beginners book.
There are bash programming books out there. But I've found I can always
get away with bourne shell since it's part of the posix.
-Kervin
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