Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn shell scripting?
What are the best resources, courses, tutorial to learn shell script. A good intro is a talk given by Ryan Tomayko called the Shell Hater's Handbook[1]. His POSIX Shell and Utilities is also a great reference[2]. For a more comprehensive guide, I recommend the dash man pages[3]. Dash is shell, the good parts. [1] http://shellhaters.heroku.com/
[2] http://shellhaters.heroku.com/posix
[3] http://linux.die.net/man/1/dash This is very good. In any case I want a tutorial if possible. Something with exercises. Get the book Unix Power Tools http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003302.do Keep it on your desk; read and apply a tool whenever you have a minute. According to me this is the best place to start http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Absolutely. ABS is the single most awesomenest place to learn shell scripting (with bash, but why bother with something else?).