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2004 Jul 30 [ Fri ]

Link to teach-yourself-sh guide on the web

I feel embarrassed to admit this but when I need to do a shell script I often realize that I have forgotten some essential trick. Because the shell tends to use very short and/or common keywords, it's very difficult to search for terms like "if" or "return" to check syntax/usage. (I get mixed up between sh, csh and bash, also perl of course; sometimes I try syntax which *appears* to work but is actually doing something quite different from what I intended...)

So the most efective thing is probably to check out general beginner-level guides now and then. Criminy, I've done most of this stuff n times before, honestly – but I learn something new every time.

steve-parker.org [http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml] Nicely-formatted, and with clear useful examples. I noticed bigwebmaster.com and librenix.com both linked to it.

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