Learning to script
 

I wonder if someone can point me to a help resource where I can teach myself the art of writing scripts. I have programming experience on other OS; other language; so something that doesn't assumes I'm a complete dolt would be great. Mny Tnx

Cheers!

check the bash and advanced bash howto's at http://tldp.org

My favorite way of learning something like this is to find an existing
script and to add some functionality to it.

Thanks Chris.
I plan to, Leed_25 :)

Cheers!

my way to learn a new language is to have a reason to learn it, and understand how to do what I want in plain english, then just use an api or core reference to find the equivalent methods of doing it in any language.

I would recommend using Perl as it is more functional & portable than bash

I would second that. The traditional sh/bash/ksh/csh/... beasts are fugly in extreme. Try a decent scripting language. Perl is powerful, but can be a tad ugly. Python is very clean and simple. Ruby combines the power of perl with
a cleaner and more consistent design than Python.

Having programmed in all the above, my favourite is by far Ruby.
See http://www.ruby-lang.org
for more details.