-hey guys where can i find linux script exercises....to practice my linux scripting...

We talkin' shell scripting, Perl scripting, HTML scripting, what?

If you administer your own system, chances are you'll run across occasions for shell scripting quickly enough.

I recommand that you learn Perl. Pick up _Programming Perl_ (an O'Reilly book); it's excellent. Or google for

Perl tutorial

and find several tutorials, of varying quality.

If you decide to learn Perl, I have a couple of exercises for you. You'll learn quite a bit about Linux/Unix and Perl if you do them.

Exercise one:

Write a script which traverses all the directories on your system (starting with / and working down) and outputs the full pathname of each file among the XXX largest. Define a way that your Perl script will let the user pick XXX at runtime. (If, for example, he says "10", output the 10 largest files.)

Exercise two:

Write a script which traverses all the directories on your system (starting with / and working down) and outputs the full pathname of each regular file which has not been read for XXX days.

Have fun!

"recommand" should be "recommend"

furrfu

-sorry i forgot its shell scripting....
-which is better anyway shell scripting or perl scripting?

Perl scripting is more powerful. Shell scripting is basically a list of commands to give to the terminal to run. Perl is an actually programming language somewhat.

- so what is highly suggested for a like me shell scripting or perl scripting

Get into shell scripting first. But then be sure you also learn to program in Perl. You won't regret it.

-where can i find a good tutorial in perl scripting?

http://learn.perl.org

For more sources, google:

Perl tutorial

If you find youself spending a lot of time with Perl, get the O'Reilly book _Programming Perl_.