Linux/Unix Shell Scripting Book

Linux and Unix-Like Linux
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I want to learn Linux/Unix shell scripting, I searched this forum but got some results for Unix Admin books and general Linux books.

Would someone recommend a good Linux Shell Scripting book?

I did order one book

A Practical Guide to Linux(R) Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
by Mark G. Sobell

yesterday but not sure if there's a better one than that. The book I ordered was published in 2005 and since Linux evolves by the day, I'd rather have a more recently published book. The above book has good reviews, and I couldn't find another shell scripting book at the time.

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I cannot recommend a hard copy of book, but here are the e-ones - starting write in bash and later when you got the idea - go ahead few more steps

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As sysgate said, there are lots of good tutorials on the 'net. As for books, I used the O'Reilly Learning the korn shell, Learning the bash shell books along with sed & awk as references when I wanted to do something specific. For several shell scripting classes I gave, I used Unix Shells by Example which was quite helpful.

Carl

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check these also:
http://www.cactus.org/~dak/shellscript.html
http://www.shelldorado.com/

http://www.unixprogram.com/grep/using_grep.html

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Thanks everyone, those resources are very useful.

I'll get started right away.