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This article intends to help you to start programming basic-intermediate shell scripts. It does not intend to be an advanced document (see the title). I am NOT an expert nor guru shell programmer. I decided to write this because I’ll learn a lot and it might be useful to other people. Any feedback will be apreciated, specially in the patch form 🙂

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Getting the latest version
• 1.2 Requisites
• 1.3 Uses of this document

2. Very simple Scripts

• 2.1 Traditional hello world script
• 2.2 A very simple backup script

3. All about redirection

4. Pipes

5. Variables

6. Conditionals

7. Loops for, while and until

• 7.1 For sample
• 7.2 C-like for
• 7.3 While sample
• 7.4 Until sample

8. Functions

• 8.1 Functions sample
• 8.2 Functions with parameters sample

9. User interfaces

• 9.1 Using select to make simple menus
• 9.2 Using the command line

10. Misc

11. Tables

12. More Scripts

13. When something goes wrong (debugging)

14. About the document

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