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There is lots of books, videos and manuals about bash. So it is hard to tell if one is good or not. By advanced bash I mean regular expressions, complex scripts, and kind-of obscure options of basic commands no beginner tutorial tells about.

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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Everyone here is throwing resources about where to learn more about Bash instead of answering the question. I'd say regex is good to learn regardless as it's pretty much used everywhere, but advanced bash scripting probably isn't worth the trouble unless you're using sysvinit scripts or something. Bash was really the first language I learned and nowadays I find myself starting scripts in bash and then quickly converting over to python the moment I have to manipulate strings. Python is much more straightforward in that regard.