Scripting Course

Books, reference guides and resources on Regular Expressions, CLI one-liners, Scripting Languages and Vim.

Ebooks

Free to read online versions:

• Python re(gex)?
• JavaScript RegExp
• Ruby Regexp
• GNU grep and ripgrep
• GNU sed
• GNU awk
• Ruby one-liners cookbook
• Perl one-liners cookbook
• 100 Page Python Intro
• Practice Python Projects
• Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils
• Vim reference guide
• Command line text processing with Rust tools — work-in-progress
• Computing from the Command Line — work-in-progress

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Ebook drafts

• Command Line Text Processing — From finding text to search and replace, from sorting to beautifying text and more
  • grep, sed, awk, perl and ruby got their own books
  • Coreutils like head, paste, sort, etc were collated into a single book
• Python Basics — older version of 100 Page Python Intro
• Ruby Scripting — examples based tutorial for Ruby scripting
• Perl Introduction — Introductory course for Perl 5 through examples, geared towards VLSI engineers

Blog

https://learnbyexample.github.io/ — my super duper awesome programming blog

Newsletter

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Curated resources

Here's my collection of learning resources. Thanks to mdBook, these lists also have an intelligent search feature to find resources based on keywords.

• Computer Science and Programming
• Python
• Linux CLI and Shell scripting
• Vim
• Perl
• Git and GitHub

dot files

This repo also includes Bash and Vim customization files (files starting with .) based on my personal preferences.

⚠️ Do NOT copy these files directly to your home directory. You might overwrite useful settings already present. Understand the customizations and apply them manually.

Contributing

• Please open an issue for typos/bugs/suggestions/etc
  • Even for pull requests, open an issue for discussion before submitting PRs
• Share the repo with friends/colleagues, on social media, etc to help reach other learners
• In case you need to reach me, mail me at echo 'bGVhcm5ieWV4YW1wbGUubmV0QGdtYWlsLmNvbQo=' | base64 --decode or send a DM via twitter

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License