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Bourne Shell Programming

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A Bourne Shell Programming Tutorial for learning about using the unix shell.
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Version 0.6
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Last Updated: 06 Oct 2002

Local mirror of Steve Bourne's Introduction to the Unix Shell - written by the great man himself.
http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/: History, Useless Use Of ... Awards, etc
http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/shell.html: Steve Bourne's original tutorial.
http://www.ocean.odu/edu/ug/shell_help.html - quickly written by the looks of it, but seems to have the important stuff.
quoting-guide.html - a pretty definitive document on quoting and escape characters.