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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 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

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17 Mar 2010 23:20

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.

29 Sep 2009 18:16

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

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.