Shell Scripting

Shell Scripting

Resources and links about shell scripting. This includes bash scripting as well as dos cmd scripting.

bash scripting

Code Snippets

Bash Code Snippets

-z The -z operator means 'is this an empty string?'. Notice the double quotes around the $1: they are mandatory here.

Example:

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    echo $0: usage: $0 filename
    exit 3
fi

External References

• An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux
• The Official GNU Bash Reference

Local References and Code Snippets

• bash Reference

DOS CMD scripting

External References

• Microsoft TechNet Command-line Reference
• The Windows Command Line, Batch Files, and Scripting
• Command line reference for Windows, Bash, Oracle, and SQL Server
• Timo's list of MS Batch and CMD links
• Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages
  • Batch Files
  • Perl
  • Regular Expressions
  • VBScript
  • Scripting Tools

Local References and Code Snippets