Bash Shell Tutorials

Question

What are some good bash tutorials? I would like to learn more about the bash shells commands and how to use them.

nik · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-30 17:24:59Z

up vote 17 down vote accepted

Advanced Bash Scripting Guide from The Linux Documentation Project pages.
(Also available as a PDF file if you prefer that).

General search tags:

Empty at this time... :-)

But, don't go by that.

edited Apr 30 '10 at 17:24

answered Aug 19 '09 at 10:13

nik
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	+1 for stackoverflow link – Lee Aug 19 '09 at 10:17
	I don't know exactly why, but I think that the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is very unfriendly. I never found an answer in that guide. Greg's wiki, and especially the FAQ, as mentioned by spatz, are great for beginners. – mrucci Apr 30 '10 at 18:33
	@mrucci, On the contrary, I can remember a large number of times looking up things directly in the guide with Google searches. Meanwhile, Greg's Wiki links referred by `spatz` are good too. – nik May 1 '10 at 2:46
	Yes, the problem is that every time I search google for "bash [something]" I found and follow the ABSG link but very rarely I found an answer in the cryptict, badly organized and presented material. – mrucci May 1 '10 at 7:08
	Well, there is at least one person finding TLDP ABS Guide less useful -- So, I'm up-voting `spatz's` answer too... – nik May 1 '10 at 8:24

spatz · Answer 2 · 2009-08-19 17:45:06Z

up vote 6 down vote

I find Greg's Bash Guide and Bash FAQ very helpful, even for beginners.

Also, I remember learning bash from Daniel Robbins' series, Bash by example, which is a very good read in my opinion.

edited Aug 19 '09 at 17:45

answered Aug 19 '09 at 11:35

spatz
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Upvote for reminding me of those DRobbins articles. Good old Gentoo days... – Zsolt Botykai Aug 19 '09 at 11:38

Zsolt Botykai · Answer 3 · 2009-08-19 11:36:42Z

If you don't mind to pay for the best resources in book format:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526788/ (Bash Cookbook)
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009656/ (Learning Bash - slightly outdated)
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527761/ (bash Quick Reference - I do use it frequently...)
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003302/ (Unix power tools - OK, not only bash. But it's a must have)

Doug Harris · Answer 4 · 2010-08-04 17:48:42Z

up vote 0 down vote

answered Aug 4 '10 at 17:48

Doug Harris
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