[ILUG] Bash scripting document

[Trevor Johnston]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Niall O Broin wrote:
> AFAIR there have been a number of requests in the past for some
> documentation on bash scripting. Whilst investigating a bug in bash
> completion with bash 2.04 I was googling and I came across a reference
> to http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/HOWTO/pdf/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO.pdf
> which is a 166 page document about bash scripting. Apparently it's
> also available at
> http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-HOWTO-0.3.tar.gz as
> HTML/SGML although that's a bit bigger than the PDF and I didn't get
> it.
For what it's worth, I can also wholeheartedly endorse this particular
HOWTO.

You can get it off linuxdoc.org, and it basically is a reference to nearly
all the stuff you'll ever need for scripts. How to use variables,
arguments, ifs...as well as some background on how to actually string all
this reference stuff together.

Well, I learned everything I know (about Bash) from it; keep it in mind if
you ever find yourself in sudden need of some advanced scripts.

Trevor Johnston