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- netcat - create
network connections (hobbit@avian.org) -
Excellent utility program (written in c) to create TCP or UDP
connections using shell scripts. Using this program you can access
remote services from shell scripts, or even create servers implemented
using shell scripts
- GNU wget - the
noninteractive download utility (Hrvoje
Niksic) - may be used to download files or web pages from scripts
- KSH
debugger (Bill Rosenblatt) - from the book
"Learning the Korn Shell" by Bill Rosenblatt. Written in KSH
- UNIX Guru Universe (Kirk Waingrow) - many UNIX related programs, some
of them are scripts
- pipe_scripting
(Oleg Kiselyov) - A tool written in C turning
"...any UNIX-interactive application into a server...". I recommend
"netcat" for this purpose
- shc-3.2.tgz
(16 KB) (Francisco Javier Rosales Garcia) -
Converts simple shell scripts to C code, which can be compiled
afterwards
- Learning
UNIX, v4.0 (Brian Brown) - Excellent UNIX
tutorial, with many examples, small excercises, and some graphics
- Command
and Shell User's Guide (Digital Equipment
Corporation) - Detailed introduction to UNIX and the shell
- Introduction
to Linux Systems Administration (Faculty of
Informatics and Communication, Central
Queensland University) - Excellent UNIX Course
- An
introduction to the UNIX Shell (Stephen R.
Bourne) - Introduction to the Bourne shell by it's inventor
- NACSE
- Coping With Unix (Rubin H. Landau, Melanie Johnson, Jon Maestri) -
A very gentle approach to lerning UNIX, in many small steps, starting
with "Logging In". Based on a book. The "interactive" version even has a
terminal window you can enter commands in (did not work for me)
- The Grymoire -
home for UNIX wizards (Bruce Barnett) -
Excellent resource for UNIX related articles about the shell, awk, sed
and more
- Advanced BASH
Scripting HOWTO (Mendel Leo Cooper) -
Excellent introduction to BASH scripting. Many examples. Unfortunately
BASH specific parts are not indicated explicitly
- UNIX
Tools Course Notes (PDF, 87k) (Michael G.
Vonk) - Short, but good introduction to UNIX and script programming
- Route User's Tutorial and
Exposition (Paul Sheer) - Comprehensive
introduction to the UNIX environment. Note: shell chapters mix standard
and BASH specific features without distinction
- Advanced
Unix-Scripts (PDF, 208k) (Rice University)
- Scripting basics for CSH and Bourne shell. 5 (of 25) pages describe
csh bugs
- Shell
Concepts (Wildcards, Piping, Redirection) (Space
Telescope Science Institute) - Illustrated UNIX tutorial
- UNIX
Bourne Shell Programming (unknown [Please contact
me if you know the author, hs]) - Comprehensive bourne shell
scripting tutorial with many examples and excercises
- Bourne Shell Programming (Robert P. Sayle) - many practical examples, not only
for system administrators
- Online
quiz (Indiana University) - Good Bourne Shell
tutorial/reference
- A
Basic UNIX Tutorial (Idaho State University) -
A good introduction to UNIX and the basics of the (interactive) shell
usage
- Introduction to
Unix (Frank G. Fiamingo, Linda DeBula, Linda Condron) -
Concise introduction to Unix, SH and CSH
- Shell
Scripts and Awk on the CUED Teaching System (Tim P.
Love) - Short introduction into shell programming for UNIX
beginners. Note that the referenced shell is the KornShell.
- CS
4375.501 Principles of Unix (Richard Burden) -
Explains the shell basics (a little hard to read because of the text
formatting)
- variable
substitutions, redirection, scripts, ... (NC
State University - Administrative Computing Service) - A short
description of input/output redirection and file name patterns
- Korn Shell
Script Course Notes (Centre for Resource and
Environmental Studies) - Short introduction to Korn Shell
programming
- The New
KornShell -- ksh93 (David G. Korn, Charles J. Northrup, Jeffery
Korn) - Description of the new features of ksh93 compared to the
previous version ksh88
- Unix Shell
Patterns (James Coplien, Alan
Robertson, Gregg Wonderly) - A collection of
"...frequent Shell programming problems that often are resolved only
with expert insight"
- A
survey of UNIX shells (Terry Griffin) -
Shortly describes the differences of the most popular shells
- UNIX SHELL Quote
Tutorial (Bruce Barnett) - Excellent resource
for UNIX related articles about the shell, awk, sed and more
- SunWorld
"Unix 101" Articles (Mo Budlong) - Good shell
script related articles. Take some time to browse!
- Sending email
with attachments on UNIX systems (J. Kyle
Tucker) - describes how to send email from shell scripts using
external programs like "metamail", "mpack", "mutt"
- Bash
Features (Chet Ramey, Brian
Fox) - Detailed description of the BASH in comparison with Bourne
Shell, C-Shell and Korn Shell
- Getting
the Most From Your Shell (Paul Dunne) -
Explains how to set environment variables, use aliases, and write very
simple shell functions
- Focus on Unix (Kathy Russell) - Excellent UNIX related articles for
beginners. Short, but to the point. Have a look at the "Power Commands"
to find explanations of frequently used UNIX commands, or read the "Unix
Tips" to find solutions for frequent problems of novice users
- KSH-93 - The
KornShell Command and Programming Language (Jeffery
Korn) - Concise list of the new features of ksh93
- Shell
Script Porting Guidelines (Raycosoft) -
highlights some aspects of portable (ksh) shell scripts
- Toolman's ;login:
articles (Daniel E. Singer) - Shell related
articles for the ;login: magazine
- Useless Use of Cat
Award (Era Eriksson) - Description of the
"award" handed out by Randal L. Schwartz in comp.unix.shell
- Using the Unix
Operating System (Joe Freeman) - A collection
of practical UNIX tips and tricks
- UnixWorld |
Columns - Wizard´s Grabbag (Rebecca Thomas) -
UnixWorld Column with shell related articles
- Shell corner
(unixreview.com) (Ed Schaefer) - Shell scripts
of different usefulness, with helpful descriptions
- Consultix
Shell Quoting Guidelines (Tim Maher) -
Describes the usage of single quotes (''), quotation marks (""), and the
backslash character '\'
- Chapter
7: Useful UNIX Utilities (Joan A. Mills) - A
brief discussion of regular expressions, grep, sed, tr, cut, ...
- Tower Floor
-- Shell Scripts (Anthony Thyssen) - Some
articles and tips about shell scripting, AWK, sed, ...
- Answerman
- Help, I've Fallen (Gary Kline, David Leonard, Dirk Myers) -
short, but nice article describing the very first steps to the first own
shell scripts
- Can A
Pipe Have More Than One Exit? (Ray Swartz) -
Describes, how to print the exit status of all stages of a pipeline,
i.e. "cmd1 | cmd2"
- Korn Shell 93
(binary distribution) (AT&T Labs-Research)
- Binary and source distributions. "ast-ksh" is only the shell;
"ast-base" includes additional utilities; "ast-open" adds some other
open source tools
- Metalab
shell binaries for Linux (Metalab) -
precompiled binaries for the most common shells, including ash, bash,
csh, pdksh, rc, scsh, tcsh, zsh
- Shell source codes
(FUNET Archive) - Source code for the following
shells: ash, bash, es, esh, ksh, rc, ssh, tcsh, zsh. Some versions (i.e.
pdksh) are rather old
- Tksh Homepage
(Jeffery Korn) - Tksh is an TCL/TK extension to
the ksh93 shell for writing graphical applications
- ES - Extensible
Shell (Soren Dayton, Paul
Haahr, Byron Rakitzis) - A shell derived from
the RC shell (the standard Plan9 shell)
- RC - shell
(re-implementation) (Byron Rakitzis, Tim Goodwin) - The default shell of the Plan9
operating system
- U/WIN (David G. Korn) - UNIX environment for Windows with
many tools, including an implementation of the Korn Shell
- Cygwin (Cygwin Solutions) - GNU development tools for Windows,
including UNIX commands and shells like BASH
- djgpp (DJ Delorie) - Port of the GNU C compiler to
Windows
- GNU
utilities for Win32 (Karl M. Syring) - Ports
of some UNIX utilities for WIndows; most notably ZSH
- Interix
(Microsoft) - UNIX environment for Windows NT/2000
- MKS
Toolkit for Developers (Mortice Kern Systems)
- Very good port of many UNIX tools to Windows, the highlight being a
full featured Korn Shell
- Hamilton C shell (Nicole Ashley Hamilton) - An implementation of the CSH
for Windows. A free demo version is available
- Z shell (SunSITE Denmark) - ZSH links, documentation, FAQs
- TCSH(1)
Manual Page (Dave Schweisguth)
- Csh (Bruce Barnett) - Excellent resource for UNIX related
articles about the shell, awk, sed and more
- The C Shell
tutorial (Ben Y. Yoshino) - Short introduction
to the features of the CSH
- An
Introduction to the C shell (William Joy, National Technical University of Athens - Software
Engineering Laboratory) - tutorial by the author of the shell
Thanks to Brian Hiles <brian_hiles@rocketmail.com> for
providing his extensive link collection.
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