Re: [MLUG] Re: bash book?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Rick wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> > > What's a good bash book?  How about the O'Reilly "Learning the Bash 
> > > Shell?" Any recommendations?  Maybe someone knows a good web page for 
> > > getting into bash?
> Probably not exactly what you need, but this is the only bash reference 
> I really ever use: http://en.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

That is a really good one -- Matt Klaric also recommended it back in June. 
Another good thing to read, I would say, is this classic paper on csh/tcsh 
vs. sh/bash programming:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

It helps to clarify some of the issues in choosing or designing a shell 
scripting language and it teaches the reader about some shell features. 
I'm sure most of you have seen it -- I think I saw it first nearly 10 
years ago but I couldn't appreciate it then as well as I can now.

For newbies:  tcsh is backward compatible with csh and bash is backward 
compatible with sh.  csh is barely usable as a login shell but tcsh is 
fairly feature rich and quite alright for new users.  bash is also feature 
rich and a best choice overall, I would say.

Mike

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