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i need your help guys to find an online or a book beginers referenece for shell linux/unix scripting. i think that learning how to script is a big part of linux administration and i would like to lear how to do it properly.thansk a lot.
The main shell in Linux is bash so presumably you mainly want to learn bash shell scripting.
At its simplest scripting is just taking the lines you run at a command line and putting them into a file then adding the execute bit to the file with chmod. Of course for more complicated scripting you need more but just being able to do that will save you a lot of time.
those links where really helpful , i read some of it and it looks for me that the idea is simple but the implementations and the posibilities are endless ... i guess that's something very important to work on .... need a lot of hours to get familiar with.... thanks a lot ...
That one helped me out a lot, shows some purposes for writing the scripts and a step by step process of doing so. Keep working at it, it eventually clicks and then it is second nature.
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