System Administration scripting
 

Hi,

I'd like to know some good resources, links, e-books to learn basic Linux system administration scripting. I know how to write very basic BASH shell scripts so I'm still at beginner level. There are so many docs out there that I'd like to narrow down people's opinion's on the best easy to understand resources that are available. Eventually I'd like to learn basic PERL as well.

Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Classic Shell Scripting
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005955

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

The Ultimate Bash Array Tutorial with 15 Examples
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/06/...rray-tutorial/

BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

Bash snippets (one of my projects)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bashsnippets/

Also there are reference books you can buy (maybe even available at your local library). Search for unix bash on Amazon

Another thing I do is look at scripts already installed in /etc/init.d/ or /etc/rc.d/
As a non-root user, copy them to your home directory and experiment.

http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

For Perl:
http://perldoc.perl.org/ - complete lang description, with examples, plus loads of tutorial links
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials - tutorials section of website where the Perl gurus hang out