Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of 962 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 361 profusely commented illustrative examples, a number of tables, and a cross-linked index/glossary. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic programming techniques, such as sorting and recursion. It is well suited for either individual study or classroom use. It covers Bash, up to and including version 4.0.
| Tags | Software Development Documentation education Systems Administration |
|---|---|
| Licenses | FDL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD BSD/OS FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD Linux |
| Implementation | Other Scripting Engines |
Recent releases
- 24 Mar 2009 21:59
Changes: Fairly extensive coverage of the version 4.0 Bash release. A great deal of other new material and bugfixes. This is a very important update.
- 23 Jan 2009 07:40
Changes: This release adds two important example scripts: Knight's Tour and Magic Squares. It has bugfixes and miscellaneous new material.
- 24 Nov 2008 07:06
Changes: Many bugs were fixed. Additionally, there is a great deal of new material. Editing was done for increased consistency. Two new example scripts were added.
- 21 Jul 2008 09:17
Changes: Much new material was added, including 7 new example scripts, among them a man page editor and a standard deviation script. Much-need clarification of certain sections and, of course, the usual round of bugfixes were done.
- 10 May 2008 14:29
Changes: This can be considered a "word games update." Recreational scripts were added, such as an almost full-featured Perquacky clone script, a script that does the "Petals Around the Rose" puzzle, and a crossword puzzle solver script. There is also the usual batch of bugfixes and other new material.
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Recent commentsMain ftp site back up
Seems to be working again.
So, you should be able to get the pdf version of the ABS Guide at:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide.pdf
This is a pdf file formatted for duplex printing, with fancy features that the LDP site pdf (below) lacks, so I'd prefer that you download this one.
You can get the intermediate-update tarball with source
files and HTML from:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-5.5.tar.bz2
Mendel
URL changes
My main (free) web hosting site cut me off.
So, for now get the version 5.5+ pdf file
from: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
I'll post updates as I get them.
Thanks, everyone, for your patience.
Mendel (author of ABS Guide)
Nice Job.. Looks Good
I found this guide very usefull.. Thanks for working on it..
PDF Download Site
The URL of the preferred download site for the pdf version of the ABS Guide is:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide.pdf
This version is specially book-formatted for duplex printing
and is usually more up-to-date than the version you can download
from the LDP site. Note that it's a 2.6 MB download.
Re: Good job! Where is the PDF?
> There is indeed a pdf version
> available:
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
A mirror pdf download site is:
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http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide.pdf
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This is actually an "improved" pdf, formatted for two-sided printing.