Everything about Script (Unix)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Script (Unix)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Optimizing DevOps Workflows with Unix Shell Scripting AutomationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Linux Command LineThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: From natural language to shell script: A case-based reasoning system for automatic UNIX programmingCited 4 times
5. Go sideways: Shell scriptA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Bash (Unix shell)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• From natural language to shell script: A case-based reasoning system for automatic UNIX programming

  W Lee · 1995 · Expert Systems with Applications · 4 citations

• AUTO XPL: a Unix shell-script system to sequence X-PLOR refinement runs

  J. F. Hunt, M. B. Mixon, A. M. Berghuis · 1998 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 1 citations

• GETENTRY: a simple Unix script for accessing the Protein Data Bank's anonymous ftp server

  John P. Rose, Michael Libeson, Bi-Cheng Wang · 1999 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 0 citations

• A short unix shell script for vcftools commands iteration to obtain the genotypes of variations for forensic purpose

  Yuancun Zhao, Xiaohong Zhao, Shu Zhang · 2017 · Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Optimizing DevOps Workflows with Unix Shell Scripting Automation

  Rahul Banerjee, Kamaluddin Mondal · 2026 · Asian Journal of Research in Computer Science · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Linux Command LineWilliam E. Shotts · 2011
• Command line kung fuJason Cannon · 2014
• Shell scriptingSteve Parker · 2011
• A practical guide to LinuxMark G. Sobell · 1997
• Oracle Shell ScriptingJon Emmons · 2007
• Expert Shell ScriptingRon Peters · 2008

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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