[olug] Newbie Bash Scripting Tutorial

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Amy Mason <amason80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks everyone, and to those who recommended .. Google it.. believe me,
> that's where I started.. I tended to find things that were far above my
> head, and made the lecture notes look... um, comprehensive and useful. I
> will try to pick up the book though, that sounds like a good direction to
> go.  The more I look at the problem, the more I see that its a problem with
> filters more than scripting anyhow, so I'm going to go google those for a
> while, but this will be useful in other ways.. hooray for breaking
> computers... *evil grin*
>
> Amy
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Edward Pluta <epluta3 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christopher Cashell" <topher-olug at zyp.org>
> > To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:54 PM
> > Subject: Re: [olug] Newbie Bash Scripting Tutorial
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Amy Mason <amason80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I've been lurking around here for several months, since I used to come
> to
> > > meetings before moving to Lincoln, but I was wondering if anyone has a
> > > good
> > > idea where I can find a decent tutorial for bash scripting, as well as
> a
> > > tutorial for filters on the command line. (Things like "sort" "comm"
> > "tr",
> > > piping and redirection, etc... I'm in a Linux class now, and honestly
> not
> > > getting as much out of my professor's lectures as I would hope, and
> > really
> > > could use the help.
> >
> > There's been a couple of good URLs posted, including one from The
> > Linux Documentation Project, and The Advanced Bash Scripting guide
> > (ABS).  Both of those are well worth reading.
> >
> > However, I think what helped me the most wasn't the bash specific
> > stuff or the scripting logic, so much as the O'Reilly book "Linux in a
> > Nutshell".  The first part of the book covers general Linux command
> > line usage, but the meat of the book is a fairly comprehensive
> > reference of command line commands, along with good descriptions,
> > examples, etc.  I'd suggest picking up a copy of that book and, as
> > boring as it sounds, read the entire command reference.  You don't
> > need to memorize it or study it, but at least skim through every
> > single command in the reference and take a look at it's description.
> >
> > Then, when you are writing a shell script and you need to do foo, you
> > might remember that a command already exists to do foo, and you might
> > even recall the name of the command.  Often in shell scripting, the
> > key really is just knowing that a command already exists that'll do
> > most of the work for you.
> >
> > Don't skip the chapters in awk and sed, either.  They may not be as
> > fashionable as Perl and company, but I can't count how many times I've
> > pulled them out to accomplish something faster and easier than anyone
> > thought possible.
> >
> > > Amy
> >
> > --
> > Christopher
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> > I do AIX programming for a living, and everyone on my team owns the "Unix
> > in
> > a nutshell" book. It's awesome and can be had from amazon or half.comfor
> > about $10. I assume the linux version is very similar as most commands
> and
> > concepts are as well.
> >
> > ~ed
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