14 September 2003
Revision History | ||
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Revision 0.1 | 14 June 2000 | Revised by: mc |
Initial release. | ||
Revision 0.2 | 30 October 2000 | Revised by: mc |
Bugs fixed, plus much additional material and more example scripts. | ||
Revision 0.3 | 12 February 2001 | Revised by: mc |
Another major update. | ||
Revision 0.4 | 08 July 2001 | Revised by: mc |
More bugfixes, much more material, more scripts - a complete revision and expansion of the book. | ||
Revision 0.5 | 03 September 2001 | Revised by: mc |
Major update. Bugfixes, material added, chapters and sections reorganized. | ||
Revision 1.0 | 14 October 2001 | Revised by: mc |
Bugfixes, reorganization, material added. Stable release. | ||
Revision 1.1 | 06 January 2002 | Revised by: mc |
Bugfixes, material and scripts added. | ||
Revision 1.2 | 31 March 2002 | Revised by: mc |
Bugfixes, material and scripts added. | ||
Revision 1.3 | 02 June 2002 | Revised by: mc |
'TANGERINE' release: A few bugfixes, much more material and scripts added. | ||
Revision 1.4 | 16 June 2002 | Revised by: mc |
'MANGO' release: Quite a number of typos fixed, more material and scripts added. | ||
Revision 1.5 | 13 July 2002 | Revised by: mc |
'PAPAYA' release: A few bugfixes, much more material and scripts added. | ||
Revision 1.6 | 29 September 2002 | Revised by: mc |
'POMEGRANATE' release: some bugfixes, more material, one more script added. | ||
Revision 1.7 | 05 January 2003 | Revised by: mc |
'COCONUT' release: a couple of bugfixes, more material, one more script. | ||
Revision 1.8 | 10 May 2003 | Revised by: mc |
'BREADFRUIT' release: a number of bugfixes, more scripts and material. | ||
Revision 1.9 | 21 June 2003 | Revised by: mc |
'PERSIMMON' release: bugfixes and more material. | ||
Revision 2.0 | 24 August 2003 | Revised by: mc |
'GOOSEBERRY' release: Major update. | ||
Revision 2.1 | 14 September 2003 | Revised by: mc |
'HUCKLEBERRY' release: bugfixes and more material. |
This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little snippets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts.
This book is suitable for classroom use as a general introduction to programming concepts.
The latest update of this document, as an archived, bzip2-ed "tarball" including both the SGML source and rendered HTML, may be downloaded from the author's home site. See the change log for a revision history.
For Anita, the source of all the magic
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