|
1. Use it. 2. Conceive of use-cases you can't already solve, and see if you can find a way to do them using Bash. 3. Consider that perhaps Bash isn't the best tool for every job. (It most certainly isn't, though you can abuse it frightfully.) 4. Books. Jerry Peek's guides are getting rather dated, but they're still a good introduction. 5. Read the manpage. Frequently. Find some part of it that doesn't make sense, or that you haven't played with before, and play with it. Shell substitutions, readline editing, parameter substitution, shell functions, math, list expansions, loops, tests, are all high-payoff areas. 6. Take a hard look at zsh, which does a great deal Bash doesn't. |