[GLLUG] Good shell script tutorial?

[Edward Glowacki]

Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> Anyone know of a good place to buck up on my bourne shell scripting?  
> I'm trying to gather various bits of info and ultimately throw it into 
> a curl call to input stuff into a remote mysql db on or LAN here at 
> work and I'm not quite sure where to start.  I'm looking more for a 
> tutorial to get me started than a man page or even the LDP.  Thanks.
>
> -Mike
>
Just out of curiosity, any particular reason for sh+curl to input stuff 
into a database instead of using something like perl (or python , etc.) 
to directly connect to the database and do your input that way?  Perl is 
just about as ubiquitous as sh these days, and I know it has database 
modules for pretty much everything.  Even without the database modules, 
it still might prove better for munging data together and sending it out 
across the network (still using curl if you so desire). 

As far as SH references, I assume the O'Reilly books are good.  If can 
somehow look like you're coming from MSU, you should be able to access 
safari.oreilly.com and read through some books online there (otherwise 
you have to pay for access I think).

A quick google-and-browse turned up a few sites that look OK:

The BASH reference manual: 
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html
A page on SH scripting: http://www.ooblick.com/text/sh/
Another intro-like SH page: 
http://vertigo.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/shell_help.html

Hope that helps!
-ED