[Klug-general] BASH / CURL Scripting tutition 2

[Mike Evans]

Just sent my previous when I read this and realised that you're not 
familiar with the unix stuff like I assumed you were.

There are lots of good web resources:

   http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/
   http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
   http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

However...

If you are starting from scratch then I would suggest that the bash 
script is not the most versatile or readable scripting lanquage.  Any 
distribution these days will support something like Python.  I'm not a 
Python programmer myself but I am aware that there is a lot of stuff 
written in it, your scripts will run on Windows (spit) as well as Linux, 
and it has a large number of libraries available to help you with all 
manner of things.

If whichever distribution you end up preferring doesn't install Python 
as part of its normal range of packages you can be sure that it is only 
a few clicks away using the package manager or a line or two at the 
command prompt.

See:

   http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3946
   http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/python/pythontut.html

Good luck,
Mike