Recommendations for shell scripting book

[bhendry]

Hello everyone!

I am in the process of changing job responsibilities from being a Windows sysadmin (yuk!) to Unix (yay!). In order to become an effective Unix administrator, I need to learn shell scripting, and I'm looking for a good resource that will help me come up-to-speed quickly. I'm very fluent with Windows batch scripts, and have a small ammount of programming experience using Basic.

Specifically, I'm interested in knowing what scripting books you have found to be valuable, or if there are books on this subject that I should avoid.

I already have these:
"Unix in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly)
"Learning the Bash Shell" (O'Reilly)

These have been very helpful for some specific things, but I'm still such a neophyte that I don't really know what's possible in Unix scripting (I don't know a lot of commands yet, or the possibilities of the few that I DO know). There seem to be quite a few web-sites with scripting tutorials, but I'm not finding much that's sysadmin specific. Is there such a thing available somewhere? Are there other resources available that I'm missing? Should I just be R-ingTFM?

Thanks a lot for any input you can give me!

Ben

[apeekaboo]

Since everyting comes down to using input/output from various commands and perhaps formatting them for your desire, you might benefit from these books:
'sed & gawk' (O'Reilly)
'Linux - the Complete Reference' (Osborne)

'Learning the bash shell' which you've already mentioned, is a good book too.
Is 'Unix in a Nutshell' equally good?

[bskahan]

the must haves are "sed & awk" (maybe the pocket reference too) and learning the bash shell, everything you *need* to know is in those. A very usefull adition I picked up on the cheap (at some discount store) is "Unix Hints & Hacks" by kirk waingrow, has lots of short script examples.

[Dun'kalis]

Make sure you learn to love sed/awk. They are your friends.

[bskahan]

Originally posted by apeekaboo

Is 'Unix in a Nutshell' equally good? [/B]

I found linux in a nutshell more useful than unix in a nutshell

[bhendry]

Thanks everyone for the input - I appreciate it!

Ben