[ale] Bash - Advanced Scripting Guide

[Lightner, Jeff]

Years ago there was a small Que book for shell scripting that I liked because it was quick and easy to use.   I was a Sr. Tech at a call center so any time I saw that book in a book or computer store I'd buy copies and give them to Jr. techs.   Not so long ago one of those then Jr. techs connected with me on Linked-In and mentioned how he still had the copy I'd given him so long ago.

Calling Bourne a "subset" of BASH just sounds wrong to me - it implies BASH was first.  Since Korn shell was an enhanced shell that built on Bourne and BASH takes a lot from both I'd say calling BASH a superset of Bourne/Korn/Posix makes more sense.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ed Cashin
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:50 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Cc: Jim Kinney
Subject: Re: [ale] Bash - Advanced Scripting Guide

I like Blinn's book, because it covers Bourne shell programming,
which is a subset of bash programming that also works on many
/bin/sh shells that are not the bash---especially handy if you work
with heterogenous environments.

  http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Shell-Programming-Extensive-Collection/dp/0134514947

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Shawn <taaj.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another good resource ->
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The ABSG should be a permanent bookmark for all penguins :-)
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2011 11:50 AM, "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>> > Ron,
>> >
>> > The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide may be of some help
>> > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
>> > Here's a link to the chapter on "IO redirection"
>> > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
>> >
>> > Though the man page for `bash` explains much of the same things, some of
>> > the non-obvious techniques in the scripting guide are eye opening if
>> > you've never seen them before.
>> >
>> > -jd
>> >
>> >
>> > On 03/20/2011 09:58 AM, Ron Frazier wrote:
>> >> Pete,
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the info. I guess I can just ignore these items then.
>> >>
>> >> Sincerely,
>> >
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