Re: Shell Scripting Guide?

From: matt_left_coast (not_at_chance.org)
Date: 07/13/05 

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:40:16 -0700

Anurag wrote:

> Hi,
> I am new to Unix shell scripting. Have decent knowledge of Unix
> commands.
> Been asked to beef up my skills to be able to write scripts (AIX - K
> shell by default, Bash also available).
>
> Are there any good books on Shell Scripting available for download?
> Let me know the URLs from where I can download these.
>
> TiA..........anurag

For bash:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

As for K shell, I am assuming you mean korn shell or ksh. I don't do much in
that but I found this doing a google search:

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/ksh.html

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