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Old 08-22-2002
Question Scripting where do I start?

Hey people,

I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of a good tutorial/HOWTO on scripting. I've never done any scripting and have had very little exposure to it but I'm curious to know more about it.

Any help would be appreciated. Smilie
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Old 08-22-2002
look for O'Reilly's books
and

www.linux.org
www.linuxpowered.com
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Old 08-22-2002
Lightbulb

You can read this book called

"Unix Shell Scripting" by Yashwant P Kanetkar...

Too good a book....


Otherwise u always have google.. Just type in key words and u will get it...
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Old 08-22-2002
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Old 08-23-2002
Thanks for your help guys, much appreciated. Smilie
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