On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mark Moellering <m...@msen.com> wrote: > I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc. I > was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list > if; > A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. > B) If I am headed in the right direction, what is the best book / resource > to use? > > Thanks in advance
Mark, There are many utilities out there and programs, I would recommend visiting http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html In that page, several references are given, including but not limited to the powerful handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics.html A nice short introduction: http://8help.osu.edu/wks/unix_course/ Chris several posts ago recommended me visit a nice page: http://steve-parker.org/sh/eg/directories/ You can look over several pages, there are many out there that you can get without paying $$, and also there's another document by William Shotts that could be of help: http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php Don't worry that it says that it is for linux, it can be used on freebsd too!, just be careful if you don't have bash shell, /bin/bash, change to /bin/sh and the script should work, just make sure that commands are not linux specific :) Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"