by Announcing the version 1.8 release of the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide."
This e-book tutorial and reference is the equivalent of a 532-page print book.
With 262 illustrative examples, the book covers virtually every aspect of
scripting.
The author invites comparisons with *any* of the commercially printed books on
shell scripting. His aim was to write "best of category" documentation.
"This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of
scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an
intermediate/advanced level of instruction ...all the while
sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore. It serves
as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference
and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The
exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader
participation, under the premise that the only way to really
learn scripting is to write scripts."
-- from the Introduction
License: Open Publication License
This means the book is *free* and freely distributable.
URLs:
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Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.html.tar.gz
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
Sunsite:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/abs-guide/
Author's home page:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.8.tar.bz2 [ 539k ]
(bzip2-ed tarball containing SGML source, all example scripts,
and rendered HTML)
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