RE: Scripting Manuals

["Joyce, Matthew" <MJoyce@ccia.org.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anil Gupte [mailto:anil-list@maxnetwork.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:29 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Scripting Manuals
> 
> 
> Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach 
> me (a newbie) to write bash shell scripts?
> 
> Thanx for any pointers.
> Anil Gupte
> 
> 

I have asked for similar pointers in the past, and often Perl was suggested
as an alternative.
For a while I ignored the Perl option as I thought it was ott for what I
wanted.

Recently I took a stab at Perl and now I wished I had just gone for perl to
start with.

So I say to you, take a look at perl.

m