In my opinion the very best for *beginning* is UNIX SHELL PROGRAMMING by Kochan and Wood and once you have the basics in hand, be sure to consult UNIX POWER TOOLS by Peek, O'Reilly, and Loukides On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:12:42PM +0400, Denis wrote: > Do you happen to know where is some helpful information about SHELL > programming???