Scripting for dummies

[khughes]

As much as I hate programing, working with VMware now and seeing all the little configure scripts and the kick start scripts floating around it makes since that I should probably learn some of this stuff. Looking at the scripts I can kinda see whats going on but I'm looking for a good intro to scripts website or book etc so i actually know what I'm doing and can start building from scratch

Anything that might help me get off my little red tricycle of newbness with scripting would be much appriciated

- Kyle

[mcowger]

I like 'Unix Shells by Example' by Ellie Quigly

http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Shells-Example-Ellie-Quigley/dp/0130212229

--Matt

[kjb007]

Having used and seen the power that powershell brings to vi. I would say, learn powershell. While learning shell scripting is incredibly useful, I think overall, powershell and/or perl and managing ESX through the vi toolkit will be of great use. Check out 'Powershell in Action' by Bruce Payette, and play with the powershell vi toolkit.

-KjB

[khughes]

Thanks guys I'll look into both of those.

- Kyle

[Texiwill]

Hello,

This is a classic text for learning shell programming Unix Programming Environment

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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[rpartmann]

Hi,

BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

hope that helps,

Reinhard

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