Shell Programming and Scripting

I am NEW to Unix. I studied a few Unix Shell Commands 8 years ago in IBM AIX machines. I want to learn/brush up Unix shell commands, therefore I just installed Red Hat Linux 9 in a P3 machine. But I do not know where to start Unix Scripting in that Linux. I chose Desktop / Personnel while installing Linux. Is it possible to do UNIX Shell Scripts on that? If so which option/menu do I have to take? Please reply. I am totally lost touch on Unix.

Thanks.

On most if not all flavours of linux you should be able to get access to command prompt for writing scripts or using unix commands etc

There should be a little terminal icon - or if you right click on the desktop, go through programs and you will possibly see a terminal or console icon.

Every version of Linux uses shell scripts. To write a script, use a text editor. I recommend emacs, but use whatever editor you are comfortable with.

There should be several terminal programs installed; usually you will have at least xterm and rxvt, and, if KDE is installed, there should be konsole. Use one of those to test one- (or even 10-) line scripts directly at the prompt, and to run your script files.