Steve's Bourne / Bash shell scripting tutorial

This page introduces you a Bourne Shell Programming/Scripting Tutorial for learning about using the Unix shell. You can master Unix shell scripting in no time. This shell scripting tutorial helps you to understand basics of Bourne/Bash shell and powerful programming techniques. This Shell programming tutorial is intended to programmers having minimum knowledge in interactive unix shell and programming in C language or pascal. This tutorials explains shell scripting techniques along with exercises for better understanding.

Following are the shell scripting topics covered in this tutorial.

1. Introduction- Shell programming/Scripting
   
2. PHILOSOPHY
3. A FIRST SCRIPT
4. VARIABLES - Part I - Scope of Variables
5. WILDCARDS
6. ESCAPE CHARACTERS
7. LOOPS -For Loops, While Loops
8. TEST
9. CASE
10. VARIABLES - Part II - Pre-set Variables
11. VARIABLES - Part III - Default Values
12. EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
13. FUNCTIONS - Scope of Variables, Recursion, Exit Codes
14. HINTS AND TIPS - Cheating with awk, Cheating with sed, Telnet Hint
15. QUICK REFERENCE
16. INTERACTIVE SHELL
17. EXERCISES - Addressbook, Directory Traversal

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