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References, Resources, Man pages etc.

The standard man pages for sh and ksh are quite complete, but not easy to learn from. The following is a sampling of the many available books on the subject. The Bolsky and Korn book might be viewed as the standard "reference". The Blinn book is Bourne shell, but everything in it should work for either shell.
The links are to publisher's web sites, or Amazon.com. Some links are also given to the example scripts provided with the books.

Books

The New KornShell Command And Programming Language, by Morris I. Bolsky, David G. Korn (Contributor). More info
Learning the Korn Shell, 2nd Edn. by Bill Rosenblatt and Arnold Robbins. More info
Korn Shell Programming by Example, by Dennis O'Brien, David Pitts (Contributor). More info
The Korn Shell Linux and Unix Programming Manual (2nd Edn) by Anatole Olczak. More info
Portable Shell Programming: An Extensive Collection of Bourne Shell Examples by Bruce Blinn. More info
Examples from this book can be downloaded for study.
Linux Shell Scripting with Bash by Ken O. Burtch. More info
Unix Shell Programming by Stephen Kochan and Patrick Wood (third Edition). More info
Teach yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours, by S. Veeraraghavan. SAMS 2nd Edn. (2002) More info
Mastering Unix Shell Scripting by Randal K. Michael, Wiley (2003) More info Light on basics, but develops scripting through examples. Ksh only. Examples can be downloaded from the Wiley site (www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/michael/).
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts by Dave Taylor, No Starch Press (2004) More info Develops scripting entirely through examples, drawn from Linux and OSX in addition to traditional Unix. Recommended, but not for beginners. Examples can be downloaded from the Intuitive site (www.intuitive.com/wicked/wicked-cool-shell-script-library.shtml).
Unix Power Tools, by S. Powers, J. Peek, T. O'Reilly, M. Loudikes et al. More info

Online Resources

Shelldorado (http://www.shelldorado.com)
Lots of links to scripting resources
Kornshell (http://www.kornshell.com)
The official Korn shell home page, with download links.
Mac OSX Unix tutorial (http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/)
Good resource on advanced use of OSX and Unix shell scripting in general

Unix-like shells and utilities for Microsoft Windows

U/Win (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/)
A free port of ksh and Unix command line utilities, plus Windows DLL for Unix compatability. Developed by AT&T Research.
Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/)
A free Linux-like environment for Windows. Provides bash, command line utilities and DLLs. Developed by RedHat. An X server is also available.
MKS Toolkit (http://www.mkssoftware.com/)
A commercial ksh clone and command line utilities, plus DLL for Unix compatability. An X server is also available.
Microsoft Services for UNIX (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/)
A POSIX environment for Windows, with ksh, csh, command line tools, libraries and software development tools. Developed by Interix and bought by Microsoft. Free download.

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