ashwin kesavan iyengar wrote:
Can somebodyTeach yourself BASH scripting. Then learn Perl scripting. Although they won't teach you anything about Linux in and of themselves, they are invaluable tools with which you can communicate effectively with the O/S.
suggest good linux books for me. I have tried some but of no success.
The best site I've found for BASH is : http://en.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
There are several good PERL sites, but CPAN is probably the site to start with : http://www.cpan.org/
Lastly, you might want to read and re-read, and re-read once again all the man pages for the commands you encounter during your wanderings. Admittedly that's a tough way to gain an education, but its the documentation for the tools that we use to communicate with the O/S. Its specific to Linux and specific to a particular distribution of Linux, which is usually a lot better than the generic verbage offered in books on the subject.
You can convert man pages to text files via a command like: man ssh | col -b >ssh.txt and then modify and eventually print the text file to make your own book.
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