The most and best material I ever found for learning shell scripting of the bash variety wasn't in a book. It was in the advanced bash scripting guide abs-guide and that's on the internet available for download. If debian; ubuntu, grml, or vinux is what you use, there's an abs-guide package in all of those distros you can download. Look in /usr/share/doc/abs-guide/ and subdirectories below that one for what you've just added to your system if you download that package. I have my sources list set to download Main Contrib Non-free so end up finding more of these packages when doing an apt-cache search abs-guide than others might. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 14:57 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Shell Scripting Books Hi, Does anyone have any recommended books on this topic they can tell me about? Thanks. Jim Jim Homme, Usability Services, Phone: 412-544-1810 Skype: jim.homme Internal recipients, Read my accessibility blog <http://mysites.highmark.com/personal/lidikki/Blog/default.aspx> . Discuss accessibility here <http://collaborate.highmark.com/COP/technical/accessibility/default.asp x> . m_and_m ________________________________ This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind