The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both areference and a tutorial on shell scripting. Thiscomprehensive book (the equivalent of 880+ printpages) covers almost every aspect of shellscripting. It contains 340 profusely commentedillustrative examples, a number of tables, and across-linked index/glossary. Not just a shellscripting tutorial, this book also provides anintroduction to basic programming techniques, suchas sorting and recursion. It is well suited foreither individual study or classroom use. Itcovers Bash, up to and including version 3.2x.License: GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)Changes:
Many bugfixes and stylistic cleanups were done.Four new example scripts were added. A newsubsection on version 3.2 Bash update was added.Explanations of certain difficult concepts wereclarified. This is an important update.