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Is there any book , Tutorial on very very advanced shell scripting

Is there a way/book to learn advanced usage of shell by practice? I find that most shell programming books only teach you the grammar of shell script. Grammar is important but as in C programming the standard library is also important.

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Have you looked at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12046/… –  jasonwryan Jul 27 '11 at 9:04

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All I've ever wanted to learn about the shell (BASH) can be found in Advance Bash Scripting Guide http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/. There are a myriad of examples here as well.

It includes all the sematics and information about the "standard library" you can find here http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html

Hope this will help you.

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In bash doesn't exist a "standard library", only a basic functionality. So, yes, you can learn advanced usage by practice because the "standard library" is all the commands in your system (especially the coreutils).

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In bash doesn't exist a "standard library" - Try typing help. –  amphetamachine Jul 28 '11 at 6:16
    
I used the quotes because this :) . So, the standard library in bash is the built-in (basic) functionality + the commands of the system. –  J.F. Jul 28 '11 at 6:41

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