shell programming - a step by step intro,plz
 

If anyone could give me a tutorial on linux shell scripting,plz do so

just google for bash scripting and you'll get many many hits.

this looks complete

It looks complete, but is written in buggy English, which makes it difficult to read.

Try this http://linuxcommand.org/writing_shel...s.php#contents

The Linux Documentation Project has a couple:

http://tldp.org/guides.html

Robin

Google (it's in the LDP anyway): Advanced bash-scripting guide

Regardless of the name, it's suitable for newcomers, and it's full of examples for everything.

besides ABS (advanced bash scripting guide), there is a nice guide to certain commands here:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
and a good tutorial part of rute as well:
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

Thanx folks. The link at linuxcommand.org is good.