Bash Resources
*The default shell for most Linux distributions; also a language*
Readings
https://alexpetralia.com/posts/2017/6/26/learning-linux-bash-to-get-things-done
https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2016/07/bash-salaries.aspx
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/for-the-love-of-pipes/
Good Reference
https://arachnoid.com/linux/shell_programming.html
Huge Ridiculous List of Bash-specific Things
https://github.com/awesome-lists/awesome-bash
Huge Ridiculous List of general Terminal CLI things
https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
https://www.blockloop.io/mastering-bash-and-terminal/
bashrc
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/129143/what-is-the-purpose-of-bashrc-and-how-does-it-work
Little Random Things
https://www.putorius.net/5-cool-command-line-tools.html
Bash on Data
https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/index.html
An old-school extremely simple way to store passwords. -
https://github.com/out-of-cheese-error/the-way/blob/master/README.md
Overview Materials
https://devhints.io/bash
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/ - Learn Bash in y minutes: Very good if you're familiar with languages generally.
https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/newbie_traps
https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/obsolete
http://robertmuth.blogspot.com/2012/08/better-bash-scripting-in-15-minutes.html
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/06/ten-things-i-wish-id-known-about-bash/
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/21/ten-more-things-i-wish-id-known-about-bash/
Lists
https://github.com/awesome-lists/awesome-bash
Fun
https://www.putorius.net/5-cool-command-line-tools.html
dump of old stuff that I'm not going through just yet
General guides
Bash General Guide
Advanced Bash Guide
Another good walkthrough of Bash
Basic, but specific, commands and functions
Brackets, Parentheses and Curly Braces, oh my
On "conditionals" in Bash (how to use if statements)
Conditional Expressions
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/031
"For" loops in Bash
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-for-loop/
For, While, and Until
https://linuxnewbieguide.org/for-while-and-until-loops/
The "DATE" command*
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-get-yesterdays-tomorrows-date.html
*Note, one bit that they don't talk about here is %s, which is the date as number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. I find this really cool and useful, makes it easy to calculate time differences
SED (which is really another language, but heavily used with bash)
https://linuxconfig.org/learning-linux-commands-sed
AWK
(which is also really another language, but also heavily used with bash)
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/awk/awk_basic_examples.htm
https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28707463
Lists of quirks and cool things that other people have put together
(I've tried to do this roughly in order from "useful" to "obscure")
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/01/06/ten-things-i-wish-id-known-about-bash/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/965663/useful-bash-code-snippets
https://www.lopezferrando.com/30-interesting-shell-commands/
https://github.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/shell_script_mistakes.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/3wiozw/what_is_your_favorite_commandline_cheatsheet/
http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html
untested
Bash History
https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/jzcoyh/super_safe_bash_history/
Math
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