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 1012 print pages, covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 376 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. Included scripts are the Game of Life, a Perquackey variant, a Morse code trainer, and an implementation of the Gronsfeld Cipher. This book is suited for both individual study and classroom use. It covers Bash, up to and including version 4.2.
| 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 Italian Romanian |
Recent releases
- 30 Aug 2011 06:58
Release Notes: Two important example scripts added: an instructive and interesting morse code trainer and a Gronsfeld Cipher script. There is also quite a bit of new material and bugfixes.
- 02 May 2011 03:34
Release Notes: Coverage of the new features of the Bash 4.1 and 4.2 releases, a new Network Programming chapter, ten new example scripts, more new material, and bugfixes.
- 17 Mar 2010 23:20
Release Notes: 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
Release Notes: Many bugfixes. A couple of new example scripts and other material have been added.
- 24 Mar 2009 21:59
Release Notes: 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.
Recent comments
Main ftp site back up
Seems to be working again.
So, you should be able to get the pdf version of the ABS Guide at:
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:
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:
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:
A mirror pdf download site is:
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This is actually an "improved" pdf, formatted for two-sided printing.
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