Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi!

I am asking me what is the best way to become a good knowledge of scripting, perl etc. Because i have only a little bit knowledge about bash, also a little bit of sed & awk. when i start reading a book or article about scripting it is often so, that i have not enough knowledge of one topic.

So can i have some advice from the cracks how to start and go on?

Thx

Alex

You have not enough knowledge ,it means you have not come across lots of problem.
the only way to enhance your knowledge is just try to know the theory or concept and apply it for solving problem .

Another / other ways I would suggest is ...

1) read man pages a lot - its definitive reading, if you can search for answer from good technical forums like unix.com or from SE but that is "learning on demand" and that might not help you to a greater extent, man pages, perldoc's will give near complete view

2) participate in technical forums like unix.com regularly - regularly I mean it In the beginning you can watch for the questions, answers posted here. If you are in doubt about any post replied ask here, all the mods/admins are very good at explaining and very humble in taking time to explain this. Once you start watching regularly slowly you would start participating as well which will enable you to learn more and contribute more.

3) Is point 1 and 2 just theory? You have the right to ask. I learned a lot just by participating in this forum regularly and learned to an extent but still as they, there are miles to go and better ways to approach a problem.

If other mods/admins here could post their experience, newbies would be greatly benefited

you could also try to create script that would help you with your daily task, for example i have created script that will run everyday to check filesystem utilization, cpu and memory and mail the report.

you can start out with the simplest one.