Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello. I'm attempting to create a shell script to assist me by saving time with one of my hobbies. I am an Android Enthusiast and currently build a few roms for one of the devices.

One of the roms I make is ported from a different device to mine (I get the original for the HTC Desire HD and port it to the HTC Glacier)

This gets updated weekly and has a lot of minor changes which have to be made every time. I believe a script can help me with this, but I'm inexperienced with this.

I'm rather new to Linux. I used Ubuntu for about eight months and then switched to Linux Mint which I've been using now for about a month, before that is was all window$.

What would be a good guide, either online tutorial, or else a book I can buy to start working on this task? As I understand there are a few different languages you can script in, what would be ideal in this task? (it needs to start with two .zip files, break them down, then assemble the files into a new, corrected amalgamation of the two.

Thanks for your input, I appreciate it.

Q: Once broken down what kind of files will you find? (I suspect binaries but I may be wrong...)

.img .lib .jar .xml .apk and many more. A rom, as I am using it, refers to the complete operating system on the device.

Shell script should suffice then...
You would be using commands like:

Code:

cp
mv
find
mkdir
#perhaps 
rm
# then more tricky
| (pipe) and redirections...

look at the man pages of each command and see if it inspires you...