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Old 02-05-2009
Recommended reading to understand syntax
Do you have any recommendations for books to read or websites to visit that cover syntax information about when to use square brackets, brackets, braces, apostrophes, quotation marks etc. in a shell script. I have little troubling on the command line but it all goes to pot when I am coding shell scripts and using variables for file names etc.

Unix in a Nutshell is fine for commands but lousy for this kind of information.

Thanks,

Susan
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Old 02-05-2009
You could try Chris F. A. Johnson's book:
Shell Scripting Recipes:
A Problem-Solution Approach
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, by Chris F.A. Johnson

Or head over to O'Reilly and take a look at:
Classic Shell Scripting, 1st Edition
by Arnold Robbins; Nelson H.F. Beebe
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Pub Date: May 16, 2005
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-00595-4
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-00595-5
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Old 02-06-2009
Hi.

I second avronius' suggestions.

You could also make up a cheat sheet for yourself, perhaps from material in Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

I often suggest the following as a useful book, particularly if you need more than one shell, etc. ... cheers, drl
Quote:
Title: UNIX(R) Shells by Example
Subtitle: ... guide to the C, Bourne, and Korn Shells plus Awk, Sed, and Grep
Author: Ellie Quigley
Edition: 4th
Date: 2004
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
ISBN: 013147572X
Pages: 1200
Categories: sh, csh, ksh, grep, sed, awk, scripting, shell, programming
Comments: 4.5 stars, 45 reviews Amazon (2007.07)
Comments: ( I have 2nd Ed, 1997 )
Comments: ( 4th edition includes bash and tcsh chapters )
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