Need suggestions on Shell Script Learning

BradMiller · Post by **BradMiller** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:12 pm

Hi All,

I never got a chance to work with writing Routines and shell scripts.
Can you pls suggest me what are the resouces that will help me to begin learning Shell script?

Thank you
Mannu

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 6:26 pm

There are some good online tutorials, which you can find using an Internet search engine.

The ones from .edu web sites seem to be more thorough.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:09 pm

There are also quite a number of good books available on the subject. Search a site like Amazon and check the reviews to see which ones people find worthy.

PaulVL · Post by **PaulVL** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:35 am

O'Reilly books offer a bunch of very good technical books on shell programming.

Pick a flavor of scripting language that you feel most comfortable with.

I like Perl, others swear by Korn Shell programming.

kduke · Post by **kduke** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:29 pm

I find the best way to learn is look at other people's scripts and see what you like and don't like. I give away a lot of simple scripts. Look at those and if you see something you don't understand then post a question. Someone will answer it and you can elarn that way as well.

Perl is powerful but cryptic. Awk and Sed are similar, powerful but hard to read and understand. Most of us have had to write shell scripts. Maybe we need a forum for these types of questions. It is part of what we need to know and support on our jobs.