This book is an attempt to teach the fundamentals of Shell Scripting without getting distracted by non-scripting features of the Korn shell like command line editing and aliases. The first half consists of sixteen chapters that gently introduce the shell commands and syntax. The second half of the book is a reference section where each command is covered individually.

This book covers the command and subjects listed below. Note that this does not include awk, which has proved to be worth a book all of it's own. It does, however, include sections on subjects like Double- and Single-quotes, something which I have not seen elsewhere.