Re: shell scripting book

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> oAny recommendations for one that goes into a little depth with exercises
> and, hopefully, answers?
>

These aren't dead-tree material, but they are absolutely wonderful
sources of information for bash scripting:

Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Bash Hackers
http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php?id=

Bash FAQ
http://wooledge.org:8000/BashFAQ

All three have a number of Bash specific constructs but 99% of it is
portable to all Bourne based shells. The ABSG is more of a traditional
book to read in chapters. Bash Hackers and Bash FAQ have an incredible
amount of useful examples on doing practical things. I recently wrote
an xml parser and web server in Bash and absolutely could *not* have
done it without those three resources!

Kurt

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