[jhaglund]

I recently found this site useful. I wrote a script that glued together some commands to be run by cron. Then the requirements grew and the script's complexity grew, and grew, and before long I learned that bash scripts support functions.

At this point, I wished I had started in python.

To answer maven911, I usually do LAMP stack development but pick up all kinds of technologies along the way.

[Maven911]

Thanks for answering, I should have given some background on why I am asking this, bash is one of many technologies that I need to learn for the job - our product unfortunately uses thousands of lines of bash scripting, and I have never gotten around finishing this guide - mostly due to laziness (after work) since I don't have time during the job to look into it as we are always in fire-fighting mode.