“This is a practical guide which tries to give real-life instead of theoretical examples.” By making her book available for online reading, Machtelt Garrels introduces you to the wonders of task automation under Linux.
Tag: bash
Bash reference manual
“This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the Bash shell.” Written by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, the original developers of GNU Bash, the book is also available for online reading.
CLI magic: daily aliases
“GNU programs are rife with additional options. Some of these options are so useful you may want to create an alias.” Keith Winston manages to save a lot of time working at the shell.