Shell Scripting: Expert Recipes for Linux, Bash, and More

Shell Tutorials and Documentation

Bash documentation can be found in two places: the GNU website (gnu.org) and the Cape Western Reserve University, home of the current maintainer, Chet Ramey.

• http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
• http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html
• http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html
• ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/FAQ

Mendel Cooper’s Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide is available in PDF form at the webofcrafts.net website. It is also available in HTML; some links to particular highlights are included later in this appendix:

http://bash.webofcrafts.net/abs-guide.pdf

Andrew Arensberger’s Ooblick site has a good page about the shell, including some slides:

http://ooblick.com/text/sh/

Philip Brown’s Bolthole website has lots of information, including a ksh tutorial:

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/ksh.html 

Greg Wooledge’s Bash Guide has a lot of good information:

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide 

ARNnet has a rare interview with Steve Bourne:

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/279011/a-z_programming_languages_bourne_shell_sh/ 

Dotfiles is a resource with many examples of dotfiles:

http://dotfiles.org/

The following are some direct links to general information in the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide:

• http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/assortedtips.html
• http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/contributed-scripts.html

The Linux Documentation Project is home to a lot of good documentation, including the Bash Beginner’s Guide, which, despite ...