Bob Hodges wrote: > Could someone give me a good summary or description of the various kinds of > shell scripting there are and which one is the best? I don't know much about it, but it's something I'd like to learn. Just wondering where to start and which one I should concentrate on.
I was in a similar position earlier this year. Most of the bookstores in the smaller towns around here have more or less dropped computer titles (I assume because technology outdates them too fast). Anyway, I went to a bigger city and found a few titles. Most of the books I came across use the bash shell and it seems to be the default shell in most distributions. While I can't give you a summary of the variations off hand, they are covered in varying degrees in most of the books I've looked at. If it helps you any, the titles I have are "Teach Yourself Shell Programming" (Veeraraghaven), "Learning the bash Shell" (Newham & Rosenblatt), "Linux Shell Scripting with Bash" (Burtch) and for lots of examples, "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts" (Taylor). Some of these cover variants, such as the Mac's Darwin and Unix in general. And yes, as someone mentioned, there is quite a bit of information to be found on Google. Craig. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
