On 31-Dec-98 Gary Singleton wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm starting to find a lot of things that could be made > easier on my system if I could write better scripts. Are there any > tutorials available? I know about the O'Reilly bash book but just > need something to get started and explain to me what the heck stuff > like 'if [ -x /bin/blah ]' means. I have gathered that it checks for > the existance of a command before trying to execute it but would like > to be certain. Thanks in advance for any assistance. >
There is a great book called "Learning UNIX shells" or some such, I have it at home and can provide more info if desired. Covers the three biggies (sh, ksh, csh) as well as awk, sed and friends. Lots of examples and ideas.
