The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of 974 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 364 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 |
| Translations | French Russian Portuguese Korean Chinese Czech Dutch |
Recent releases


Changes: This release features a minor reorganization of the material. The "Indirect References" subsection is broken out as a separate chapter. Two section of the "Variables Revisited" chapter are now in a stand-alone chapter. There is also the usual round of bugfixes and stylistic changes.


Changes: Many bugfixes. A couple of new example scripts and other material have been added.


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.


Changes: This release adds two important example scripts: Knight's Tour and Magic Squares. It has bugfixes and miscellaneous new material.


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.
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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:
personal.riverusers.co...
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:
personal.riverusers.co...
Mendel
URL changes
My main (free) web hosting site cut me off.
So, for now get the version 5.5+ pdf file
from: www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/a...
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:
personal.riverusers.co...
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:
> www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/a...
A mirror pdf download site is:
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personal.riverusers.co...
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This is actually an "improved" pdf, formatted for two-sided printing.