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This book is a very popular and thorough reference for shell scripting.

• Robbins, Arnold, and Nelson H.F. Beebe. Classic Shell Scripting. 1st ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2005.

These two books contain many examples of useful and interesting shell scripts. The first is a bit more general and introductory; the second is targeted at somewhat advanced bash scripters.

• Johnson, Chris F.A. Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. 1st ed. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2005.

• Taylor, Dave. Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press, 2004.

This definitive reference for the Korn shell includes Korn shell scripting.

• Bolsky, Morris I., and David G. Korn. The New Korn Shell, Command and Programming Language. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.