[NBLUG/talk] I want to learn shell scripting.

[Dave Sisley]

Thanks for tips, everyone. I've decided to go with the O'Reilly bash
book (with the fish on the cover).  I chose it for various reasons,
but I may still check out some of the other books that were
suggested.  I have a feeling that the 'Power Tools' book will be
better for me when I have a little more knowledge...

Best nugget so far from the fish book:

Ctrl-R from the command line allows reverse-incremental searching
through the command history - just like in emacs!*  Who knew?

- dave.


* Your shell can be set to respond to emacs-like commands, which I
  think is the default setting.  You can also set it to respond to vi
  commands, but why would you do that?
  <winking-smiley-with-tongue-sticking-out>


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 04:55:37PM -0700, Dave Sisley wrote:
> Hey, all:
> 
> It's almost summer, and I'm going to need a project. I've been
> thinking that I really need to know more about shell scripting, so
> maybe now's the time.
> 
> I am soliciting recommendations for a good book or web-based tutorial
> that can get me going. As an example, I really enjoyed going through
> O'Reilly's 'Learning Perl' (llama); it was a good mix of information
> and little exercises to show you how things work.
> 
> I've googled around a bit, but I'd like to know if anyone has found
> something on this subject that they really liked.
> 
> I took a quiok look at the fish book (O'Reilly's 'Learning Bash', or
> something like that), and I thought it might be a little too
> introductory for my needs (please correct me if my impression is
> incorrect). I'm pretty familiar with the command line, but I want to
> focus more on scripting.
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help!
> 
> -- 
> Dave Sisley
> dsisley at arczip.com
> roth-sisley.net
> 
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Dave Sisley
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roth-sisley.net