I'm an old timer familiar with the C shell from the old UNIX days. Nowadays, the Borne Again Shell 'bash' is the default shell for Linux. Can anybody point me to some resources for learning 'bash'? The 'man bash' pages just don't do it for me.

I want to take the CompTIA Linux+ certification exam. From what I read, command line utilities and bash make up a good portion of the exam. I don't want to get confused thinking in csh when bash is really the correct answer.

Speaking of csh, here are some stupid csh tricks:

% light?
No match

% man woman divorce
Too many arguments

The O'Reilly books are good. There's a good book Linux Shell Scripting with Bash by Burtch.

And, nothing beats writing scripts to do various tasks as a non-privileged user.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/

the best way to learn here, is just to use it, daily.


you'll see quite fast it's very very useful !

Goodluck!

In tldp books, lots of things are not related to bash. Some examples are buggy or not explanatory, at least for me.

Well, I learned to program bash using this book, looks like it's available free online now:
http://books.google.com/books?id=q1Y...sec=frontcover

it's quite good too, if you don't like the others above.

The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide in the www.tldp.org website is excellent. It consists entirely of examples, which you can try out yourself as you read along. This helps you learn by utilizing post #4's advice.

The Bash Cookbook by O'Reilly is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn Bash. For someone like yourself, who has experience in other shells, it's a great way to learn the differences and it has a lot of complete example scripts that are ready to run.