Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, version 6.4 update

[M. Leo Cooper]

Announcing the version 6.4 release of the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide."
This e-book tutorial and reference is the equivalent of a 1000-page
print book. With 376 illustrative examples (including such goodies as an
anti-spammer script, a man page editor, and a Morse code trainer),
the book covers virtually every aspect of scripting.

This e-book contains printable reference cards, just like commercially
available computer tutorials.

The book includes a cross-linked index.

The author invites comparisons with *any* commercially printed book on
shell scripting. His aim was to write "best of category" documentation.

"This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of
scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an
intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while
sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore. It serves
as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference
and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The
exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader
participation, under the premise that the only way to really
learn scripting is to write scripts."
-- from the Introduction

License: Open Publication License
This means the book is *free* and freely distributable.
The author now permits distribution of derivative and
substantively altered versions of the document.
The scripts contained within the book are GPL2, GPL3,
or Public Domain, as noted.

URLs:
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Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.html.tar.gz

Mirror Site:
http://bash.webofcrafts.net/abs-guide-latest.tar.bz2
http://bash.webofcrafts.net/abs-guide.pdf

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http://bash.webofcrafts.net/abs-guide.pdf [3402 kb]
pdf version optimized for duplex printing
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freshmeat.net page:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/advancedbashscriptingguide/

Author's home page:
http://bash.webofcrafts.net/abs-guide-latest.tar.bz2 [1.2 mb]
(bzip2-ed tarball containing SGML source and all example scripts)

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