Shell Scripting for System Administrators

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

I am working as a linux adminstrator and I want to learn shell scripting which helps me for day to day administration.
I want to know about the good books / links for shell scripting for system adminstrators.

Thanks & Regards
Arun

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I recently acquired a book, "Linux Shell Script Programming"
its very useful. Supplied by Thomson course technology
I also came acroos a few PDF's which were helpful:D

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I am presently working through "Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting: Bash, Bourne and Korn Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators, and Unix Gurus, Second Edition" (2008), authored by Randal K. Michael and published by Wiley Publishing Inc. (ISBN: 978-0-470-18301-4).

This text contains many excellent scripts for automating system administration tasks.

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The bash man page is awesome, but the single best reference except that would be: Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

Good luck!

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Expert Shell Scripting (ISBN-13: 978-1430218418) was written by an administrator as a reference for an administrator.

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I used it many times (a good french translation available here : Guide avanc� d'�criture des scripts Bash for french talking people)
and also the very complete Bash Refrence Manual.

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"Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: Bash, Bourne, and Korn Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators, and UNIX Gurus."

This book is coming next week by DHL.

Hoping to raise my game.

(been dancing around too many books and articles)