> Hello al I was wondering if someone can tell me of some website taht > talk aboput shell scripting in great detail thanks > Yeah, try www.perl.com Oh, I just crack myself up... I learned to do shell scripting using a copy of "Unix in a Nutshell", but I think there's a thin O'Reilly book on bash as well. "Shell scripting" can mean many things, of course, but I assume you mean bourne shell scripting, which the O'Reilly book will most certainly cover.