Shell Scripting Tutorial (PDF)
This tutorial is written to help people understand some of the basics of shell script scripting, and hopefully to introduce some of the possibilities of simple but powerful programming available with the command line.
It benefits from having been read, enjoyed and peer-reviewed by hundreds of thousands of readers over more than 10 years, to make it one of the most popular shell scripting tutorials available.
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This is a thorough yet practical tutorial with examples throughout. It has been written with extensive feedback from hundreds of thousands of readers. These include new students as well as academics and seasoned professionals in the field. Some have a long Unix and/or Linux background, others have none. This tutorial is currently cited by at least seven different University Degree courses around the world, as a teaching resource for their Undergraduates.