Links to other shell resources

Introductions to shell scripting

• Writing Shell Scripts
• Steve's Bourne Shell Programming Tutorial
• Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial
• Michael Paoli's Introduction to Shell Programming
• Bash by example
• (Bash) Basic Shell Features
• LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition, Shell Scripting
• Bash Guide for Beginners
• BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO

Intermediate and advanced scripting

• Bruce Barnett's tutorials on UNIX shell programming
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions from comp.unix.shell
• Paul Jarc's shell constructs page
• What to watch out for when writing portable shell scripts

Shell Quoting

• A Guide to Unix Shell Quoting
• Consultix Shell Quoting Guidelines
• UNIX SHELL Quote Tutorial
• The Open Group Base Specifications (IEEE Std 1003.1) -- 2.6 Word Expansions"

Reference

• Single Unix Specification: Shell & Utilities

Collections of scripts

• Heiner's Shelldorado
• Dana French's Korn Shell scripts

Scripting philosophy and essays

• Opening the software toolbox
• Shell Programming Considered Harmful by Stéphane Chazelas
• The art of writing Linux utilities by Peter Seebach
• Portable Shell Programming (with special reference to autoconf)
• Characteristical common properties of the traditional Bourne shells

Shell Home Pages

• The Bourne-again Shell (bash) home page
• The Korn Shell (includes man pages for ksh88 and ksh93).
• pdksh — the Public Domain Korn Shell

Regular Expressions, sed and awk

• Regular Expressions (Pattern Matching) from UNIX Power Tools 2nd Edition
• Regular Expressions by Guido Socher
• Using Regular Expressions by Stephen Ramsay
• A Tao of Regular Expressions
• Regular Expression HOWTO (Python specific, but the basics are the same)
• egrep - Extended Regular Expressions
• Awk FAQ by Russell Schulz
• Sed — an introduction
• sed FAQ
• Handy one-liners for sed (Unix stream editor) compiled by Eric Pement
• Eric Pement's sed page (where you can download various seds for different platforms)
• sed manual

Unix Utilities

• A 'find' tutorial

The History of the Shell

• History of Unix shells
• Steven Bourne's Introduction to the Unix Shell
• Why do some scripts start with #! ... ?
• Which came first?
• The Traditional Bourne Shell Family
• Extract from David Korn's "ksh - An Extensible High Level Language"

Web Forums

• LinuxQuestions.org Programming forum
• Unix.com: Shell Programmming and Scripting Q&A
• Unix.com: UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
• Unix.com: UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
• ITToolbox Shell script list

Miscellaneous

• William Park's Bash extensions and functions
• UnixReview.com's Shell Corner

What about csh?

• Top Ten Reasons not to use the C shell
• Csh Programming Considered Harmful
• Bruce Barnett's csh page

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