Bash tutorial?

submitted by fschmidt from self.programming

Can anyone suggest a good book or online tutorial for learning Bash for my reactionary programming course? All the books and online tutorials that I have seen are horrible.

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[–]pijk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This one seems decent.

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The first command it has is echo "$BASH_VERSION". This is horribly complicated for a first command. Why not just echo hello world?

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Probably to confirm the user is actually in Bash. Since it seems to be written with the notice in mind, I imagine the author wanted to make sure you'd catch it right away if you were accidentally using a different shell.

Edit: I should add that other things about this guide strike me as weird too. Not saying I think it's good overall, just speculating about the reason behind that particular decision.