James, O'Reilly has a book on the bash shell that would include all of this. The man pages on bash would have that also. Information on the Bourne (sh) and Korn (ksh) shells would also be helpful. BTW, this list deals with the "C" language and programming and not with shell scripting. HTH, MH At 07:50 PM 7/21/98 +0000, you wrote: >where can i get info on writing shell scripts for bash (like what's the >format of an if statement?) >
