Bibliography

This compendium contains a couple of articles on shell script viruses.

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Covers much of the same material as this guide. Dead tree media does have its advantages, though.

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To unfold the full power of shell scripting, you need at least a passing familiarity with sed and awk. This is the standard tutorial. It includes an excellent introduction to "regular expressions". Read this book.

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The best, all-around reference on Regular Expressions.

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This excellent sys admin manual has a decent introduction to shell scripting for sys administrators and does a nice job of explaining the startup and initialization scripts. The long overdue third edition of this classic has finally been released.

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The standard reference, though a bit dated by now.

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Good in-depth coverage of various programming languages available for Linux, including a fairly strong chapter on shell scripting.

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Excellent coverage of algorithms and general programming practices.

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Good info on shell scripting, with examples, and a short intro to Tcl and Perl.

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This is a valiant effort at a decent shell primer, but somewhat deficient in coverage on programming topics and lacking sufficient examples.

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A very handy pocket reference, despite lacking coverage of Bash-specific features.

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Contains a couple of sections of very informative in-depth articles on shell programming, but falls short of being a tutorial. It reproduces much of the regular expressions tutorial from the Dougherty and Robbins book, above.

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A treasure trove of ideas and recipes for computer-based exploration of mathematical oddities.

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The classic tutorial on problem solving methods (i.e., algorithms).

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This manual is the definitive reference for GNU Bash. The authors of this manual, Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, are the original developers of GNU Bash. For each copy sold the publisher donates $1 to the Free Software Foundation.

Excellent Bash pocket reference (don't leave home without it). A bargain at $4.95, but also available for free download on-line in pdf format.

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The absolute best awk tutorial and reference. The free electronic version of this book is part of the awk documentation, and printed copies of the latest version are available from O'Reilly and Associates.

This book has served as an inspiration for the author of this document.

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This well-written book contains some excellent pointers on shell scripting.

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Very detailed and readable introduction to Linux system administration.

The book is available in print, or on-line.

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The all-around best Linux command reference, even has a Bash section.

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Just as the title says . . .

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An array of seven UNIX books on CD ROM, including UNIX Power Tools, Sed and Awk, and Learning the Korn Shell. A complete set of all the UNIX references and tutorials you would ever need at about $130. Buy this one, even if it means going into debt and not paying the rent.

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The O'Reilly books on Perl. (Actually, any O'Reilly books.)

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Fioretti, Marco, "Scripting for X Productivity," Linux Journal, Issue 113, September, 2003, pp. 86-9.

Ben Okopnik's well-written introductory Bash scripting articles in issues 53, 54, 55, 57, and 59 of the Linux Gazette, and his explanation of "The Deep, Dark Secrets of Bash" in issue 56.

Chet Ramey's bash - The GNU Shell, a two-part series published in issues 3 and 4 of the Linux Journal, July-August 1994.

Mike G's Bash-Programming-Intro HOWTO.

Richard's Unix Scripting Universe.

Chet Ramey's Bash F.A.Q.

Ed Schaefer's Shell Corner in Unix Review.

Example shell scripts at Lucc's Shell Scripts .

Example shell scripts at SHELLdorado .

Example shell scripts at Noah Friedman's script site.

Example shell scripts at zazzybob.

Steve Parker's Shell Programming Stuff.

Example shell scripts at SourceForge Snippet Library - shell scrips.

"Mini-scripts" at Unix Oneliners.

Giles Orr's Bash-Prompt HOWTO.

Very nice sed, awk, and regular expression tutorials at The UNIX Grymoire.

Eric Pement's sed resources page.

Many interesting sed scripts at the seder's grab bag.

The GNU gawk reference manual (gawk is the extended GNU version of awk available on Linux and BSD systems).

Tips and tricks at Linux Reviews.

Trent Fisher's groff tutorial.

Mark Komarinski's Printing-Usage HOWTO.

The Linux USB subsystem (helpful in writing scripts affecting USB peripherals).

There is some nice material on I/O redirection in chapter 10 of the textutils documentation at the University of Alberta site.

Rick Hohensee has written the osimpa i386 assembler entirely as Bash scripts.

Aurelio Marinho Jargas has written a Regular expression wizard. He has also written an informative book on Regular Expressions, in Portuguese.

Ben Tomkins has created the Bash Navigator directory management tool.

William Park has been working on a project to incorporate certain Awk and Python features into Bash. Among these is a gdbm interface. He has released bashdiff on Freshmeat.net. He has an article in the November, 2004 issue of the Linux Gazette on adding string functions to Bash, with a followup article in the December issue, and yet another in the January, 2005 issue.

Peter Knowles has written an elaborate Bash script that generates a book list on the Sony Librie e-book reader. This useful tool permits loading non-DRM user content on the Librie.

Rocky Bernstein is in the process of developing a "full-fledged" debugger for Bash.

Of historical interest are Colin Needham's original International Movie Database (IMDB) reader polling scripts, which nicely illustrate the use of awk for string parsing.

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The excellent Bash Reference Manual, by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, distributed as part of the "bash-2-doc" package (available as an rpm). See especially the instructive example scripts in this package.

The comp.os.unix.shell newsgroup.

The comp.os.unix.shell FAQ and its mirror site.

Assorted comp.os.unix FAQs.

The manpages for bash and bash2, date, expect, expr, find, grep, gzip, ln, patch, tar, tr, bc, xargs. The texinfo documentation on bash, dd, m4, gawk, and sed.