Bash Tutorials & References

[Bruce Burhans]

Additions to this list are very welcome, and will
appear in the next  revision.


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Bash  2.05b with debugger  source  is available
at--

http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/

The debugger is more than a diagnostic tool,  it is a fine way to explore
the very guts of bash.

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    $ help help

This  will tell you how to use the help
program built into bash......

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Books


"Learning the Bash Shell"    2nd Edition

Newham  and  Rosenblatt     OREILLY


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On the Net




 1.    http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml

  Steve's Bourne Shell Programming Tutorial....

 You can download this as gzipped tarball...Seems
 pretty good to me. I'm most of the way through it...
   Lots of examples......


 2.   http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

 Okay.


 3.   http://rute.sourceforge.net/

 An excellent Linux/Unix book with several chapters on  or directly relevant
to  Bash Scripting....Download in HTML or PDF.....

 4   http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/

    Good one, even with the bad English.  Very thorough...


5.  http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

    This is the advanced guide, and a really useful
reference.   Many  example scripts....A  must.


  6.  http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a/bashref.html

        Bash reference manual. Another  great reference
and even more useful than 5  for basic scripting, in some
ways......Good intro to just read through a couple of
times.....Has installation instructions...

       ( can be found as  $ info bash )



  7.  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/

       ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/FAQ

(generally also found on <comp.unix.shell> posted  regularly by Chet Ramey
himself )


    The famous FAQ.  Reference......


  8. man bash

        Definitive reference.

        ( man builtins for that part of man bash)


  9.    http://linuxsig.org/files/bash_scripting.html


        A   concise  intro/reference sheet.   Can copy as
plain text.


 10.    http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/bash.html


    In  3 parts,   by  IBM.   Pretty good.....


11.

http://www.linuxcommand.org/writing_shell_scripts.html

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        Good one!  Very clear....


12.   Sed  FAQ links    (links to other sed materials too)

Thanks to Peter  Terpstra


  The newest version of the sed FAQ is usually here:

       http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/sedfaq.html
       http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/sedfaq.txt
       http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/~george/sed/sedfaq.html
http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/~george/sed/sedfaq.txt
http://www.ptug.org/sed/sedfaq.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/sed
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/editor-faq/sed


If you want to get good at sed,  then  use the ed
editor instead of vi........

 13.   Here's an essay on regular expressions.

http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/July1998/article53.html


        The best intro to regexp's I've seen.

see also  man grep,  man regex,   man ed,  man
sed.....and the info pages for them...



  14.      This is sort of a cross between a tutorial and an  in-depth
cheat-sheet.....


http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September2001/article216.shtml


  15  "A Quick Introduction to Bash Programming"


In  two parts:

http://www.geocities.com/tipsforlinux/articles2/043.html



    16.     AWK  FAQ


ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/lang/awk/faq



    17.   Lengthy tutorial with Linux basics and
an awk section.......

http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/linux/docs/uniqlinuxfeatures/lsst/



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Bruce

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     bburhan1    AT   earthlink   DOT  net