Bash Guide for Beginners Author:Machtelt Garrels The primary reason for writing this document is that a lot of readers feel the existing HOWTO to be too short and incomplete, while the Bash Scripting guide is too much of a reference work. There is nothing in between these two extremes. This is a practical guide, which, while not always being too serious, tries to give real life instead of theo... more »retical examples. From my experience as UNIX/Linux user, system administrator and trainer, I know that people can have years of daily interaction with their systems, without having the slightest knowledge of task automation. Thus they often think that UNIX is not user-friendly, and even worse, they get the impression that it is slow and old-fashioned. This problem is another one that can be remedied by this guide. Everybody working on a UNIX or UNIX?like system who wants to make life easier on themselves, power users and sysadmins alike, can benefit from reading this book.« less