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Description of  Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting

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 UNIXR 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. This book is suitable for classroom use as a general introduction to programming concepts. The latest update of this document, as an archived, bzip2-ed "tarball" including both the SGML source and rendered HTML, may be downloaded from the author's home site. A pdf version - http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf - is also available (pdf mirror site - http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide.pdf). See the change log for a revision history - http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log