As you know, USS commands are ported so sometimes they don't correspond to their *nix ancestors. So, reference this often: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa500/toc.htm
When I was getting started many yrs ago in kernel development I always enjoyed "Unix Power Tools" , there are many versions of it out there, not sure legally hosted or not so I will leave those PDFs searches up to you (I still have a hard copy of the book). I do find much overlap with USS and *nix concepts. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/0596003307/ Along the lines of shell scripting, look into Z Open Automation Utilities to enhance your scripts to do even more MVS functions beyond what USS supports. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKFYE And if you are like me, you will find shell scripting now replaced with Ansible Playbooks (I can do so much more and so much quicker). https://ibm.github.io/z_ansible_collections_doc/index.html# ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
