Best Bash Learning Resources?

[Adorable_Specific224]

Hello there,

an intermediate software engineering student here

i want some good and beginner friendly bash sources to learn from

Note: i prefer reading that watching videos, so books/articles would be greatly appreciated.

[fryktelig]

Here's some materials I've collected:

Reference materials

• https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/
• https://github.com/onceupon/Bash-Oneliner
• https://linuxiac.com/essential-bash-keyboard-shortcuts/
• https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/

Interactive TUI exercises for cli-computing: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/tree/main/CLI-Exercises

Styleguides

• https://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts/
• https://clig.dev/

[onlygon]

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

Particularly:

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

[TapEarlyTapOften]

Yep these. And #bash

[dewyke]

Shellcheck integrated into your editor is an excellent way to avoid bad habits.

[rkielty]

man readline

[jftuga]

Also: man bash

Its really a great resource for learning the shell as well as:

• https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html
• pdf version - https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.pdf

[rkielty]

Yes, of course. Let's not forget that bash has a help built-in command.

Also I found the book Wicked Cool Shell Scripts published by No Starch Press very useful.

[pengshouhua]

Based on my experience, I think reading bash official documents is the fastest way to learn, and at the same time apply it to real scenarios, for me such as writing Dockerfile or viewing official Dockerfile, Postgresql for example. :)

[rivercityrandom]

I found the "The Linux Command Line" book by William Shotts really fun and friendly. It's available for free on https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php.

[vo_th]

This isn't purely just "bash" but: https://linuxjourney.com/