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Does anyone have suggestions on books to grow my scripting fu? (End of chapter exercises tend to be useful for me) I know bash, and know a lot of basic command
by dontbenebby 8y ago
Does anyone have suggestions on books to grow my scripting fu? (End of chapter exercises tend to be useful for me)
I know bash, and know a lot of basic commands, but I'm not familiar with some more advanced things. I don't know awk or sed for example.
- 01100011 8y agoWhat really helped me is my desire to automate most aspects of my job. If I'm doing something more than once(and twice is more than once), I prefer to automate it. I'm really stupid, and I'm really, really lazy. I am not good at repetitive tasks, but computers are. If there's one thing I feel is important for every programmer to get, it's that our single reason for existence is to make computers do work for us. We should look for opportunities to do so, not always because it is the most efficient thing to do, but because it is what we do. So I end up writing a lot of bash scripts. A lot of small python scripts. Stupid scripts. Over time, you build up a library of tricks. You read threads like this where you pick up new tricks. It isn't something you'll learn once. Some of the tools take years to really get the feel of.
- photon_lines 8y agoIf you're looking for good books, I can vouch for 'A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming' which has very through coverage and end of chapter exercises. For PowerShell, I'm currently reading the the free PowerShell Notes for Professionals ( https://books.goalkicker.com/PowerShellBook/ https://books.goalkicker.com/PowerShellBook/ ) and it's a great resource as well.
- brogrammer2018 8y agoThank you for sharing
- dontbenebby 8y agoThanks for the book suggestion, that looks like exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in.