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hello,

Pls can anyone assist me with some info on how I could seriously begin learning how to write linux scripts.....Book titles, websites, tutorials etc

thanks
Ife

Shell Scripting (STICKIED FOR A REASON!): http://forums.phoenix-hosting.org/viewtopic.php?t=1860

UNIX Shell Scripting: http://www.esscc.uq.edu.au/~ksteube/Bshell/
C Shell Scripting: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/ ... ellII.html
Bash Shell Scripting: http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml
Advanced Bash Scripting: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Perl Links: http://forums.phoenix-hosting.org/viewtopic.php?t=1779

Seriously, google "UNIX Shell Scripting," "Perl Scripting," "Python Scripting" ... you'll find a bunch of good online tutorials :D

Also tcl.

The easiest way with TCL/TK is to just keep the command reference open in Firefox while you're writing your script and test often.

By test often I mean break your script down to each individual function, and then write that function as a seperate script to build and test that function before integrating it back into the main script, and then test the main script with all the functions missing and static entries used, to make sure that works, and then put each function in one at a time and test it each time.

Yeah, I'm a real nut when it comes to testing, but it makes it easier than to have to look over that rather poorly organized scripting language later.

Perl, use a tutorial, start small, and build up before taking on a project. TCL may be badly organized, but it's quicker to learn.

Bash is another one that you should use the open book, test often solution.

SWF DF G

I would suggest Perl myself. As was mentioned, Perl can also be considered a programming language, but seeing as how it's natively supported by most *nix distributions, it also works well for scripting. If you're already fairly comfortable with programming jargon, you could get O'Reilly's Programming Perl, but when I started with Perl I seemed to have a lot of success learning the basics from a SAMS 24 Course book on Perl and then just using the man pages that come are probably already on your system (man perl).