P. Revision History

       This document first appeared as a 60-page HOWTO in the late spring
       of 2000. Since then, it has gone through quite a number of updates
       and revisions. This book could not have been written without the
       assistance of the Linux community, and especially of the volunteers
       of the Linux Documentation Project.

Here is the e-mail to the LDP requesting permission to submit version 0.1.

From [email protected] Sat Jun 10 09:05:33 2000 -0700
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 09:05:28 -0700 (MST)
From: "M. Leo Cooper" <[email protected]>
X-Sender: thegrendel@localhost
To:[email protected]
Subject: Permission to submit HOWTO

Dear HOWTO Coordinator,

I am working on and would like to submit to the LDP a HOWTO on the subject
of "Bash Scripting" (shell scripting, using 'bash'). As it happens,
I have been writing this document, off and on, for about the last eight
months or so, and I could produce a first draft in ASCII text format in
a matter of just a few more days.

I began writing this out of frustration at being unable to find a
decent book on shell scripting. I managed to locate some pretty good
articles on various aspects of scripting, but nothing like a complete,
beginning-to-end tutorial.  Well, in keeping with my philosophy, if all
else fails, do it yourself.

As it stands, this proposed "Bash-Scripting HOWTO" would serve as a
combination tutorial and reference, with the heavier emphasis on the
tutorial. It assumes Linux experience, but only a very basic level
of programming skills. Interspersed with the text are 79 illustrative
example scripts of varying complexity, all liberally commented. There
are even exercises for the reader.

At this stage, I'm up to 18,000+ words (124k), and that's over 50 pages of
text (whew!).

I haven't mentioned that I've previously authored an LDP HOWTO, the
"Software-Building HOWTO", which I wrote in Linuxdoc/SGML. I don't know
if I could handle Docbook/SGML, and I'm glad you have volunteers to do
the conversion. You people seem to have gotten on a more organized basis
these last few months. Working with Greg Hankins and Tim Bynum was nice,
but a professional team is even nicer.

Anyhow, please advise.

Mendel Cooper
[email protected]

Table P-1. Revision History

Release   Date                  Comments
0.1           14 Jun 2000      Initial release.
0.2           30 Oct 2000      Bugs fixed, plus much additional material and more example scripts.
0.3           12 Feb 2001      Major update.
0.4           08 Jul  2001      Complete revision and expansion of the book.
0.5           03 Sep 2001     Major update: Bugfixes, material added, sections reorganized.
1.0           14 Oct 2001      Stable release: Bugfixes, reorganization, material added.
1.1           06 Jan 2002      Bugfixes, material and scripts added.
1.2           31 Mar 2002      Bugfixes, material and scripts added.
1.3           02 Jun 2002      TANGERINE release: A few bugfixes, much more material and scripts added.
1.4           16 Jun 2002      MANGO release: A number of typos fixed, more material and scripts.
1.5           13 Jul 2002       PAPAYA release: A few bugfixes, much more material and scripts added.
1.6           29 Sep 2002     POMEGRANATE release: Bugfixes, more material, one more script.
1.7           05 Jan 2003      COCONUT release: A couple of bugfixes, more material, one more script.
1.8           10 May 2003     BREADFRUIT release: A number of bugfixes, more scripts and material.
1.9           21 Jun 2003      PERSIMMON release: Bugfixes, and more material.
2.0           24 Aug 2003     GOOSEBERRY release: Major update.
2.1           14 Sep 2003     HUCKLEBERRY release: Bugfixes, and more material.
2.2           31 Oct 2003      CRANBERRY release: Major update.
2.3           03 Jan 2004      STRAWBERRY release: Bugfixes and more material.
2.4           25 Jan 2004      MUSKMELON release: Bugfixes.
2.5           15 Feb 2004      STARFRUIT release: Bugfixes and more material.
2.6           15 Mar 2004      SALAL release: Minor update.
2.7           18 Apr 2004       MULBERRY release: Minor update.
2.8           11 Jul 2004        ELDERBERRY release: Minor update.
3.0           03 Oct 2004       LOGANBERRY release: Major update.
3.1           14 Nov 2004      BAYBERRY release: Bugfix update.
3.2           06 Feb 2005      BLUEBERRY release: Minor update.
3.3           20 Mar 2005      RASPBERRY release: Bugfixes, much material added.
3.4           08 May 2005     TEABERRY release: Bugfixes, stylistic revisions.
3.5           05 Jun 2005      BOXBERRY release: Bugfixes, some material added.
3.6           28 Aug 2005     POKEBERRY release: Bugfixes, some material added.
3.7           23 Oct 2005     WHORTLEBERRY release: Bugfixes, some material added.
3.8           26 Feb 2006     BLAEBERRY release: Bugfixes, some material added.
3.9           15 May 2006    SPICEBERRY release: Bugfixes, some material added.
4.0           18 Jun 2006     WINTERBERRY release: Major reorganization.
4.1           08 Oct 2006     WAXBERRY release: Minor update.
4.2           10 Dec 2006    SPARKLEBERRY release: Important update.
4.3           29 Apr 2007      INKBERRY release: Bugfixes, material added.
5.0           24 Jun 2007     SERVICEBERRY release: Major update.
5.1           10 Nov 2007     LINGONBERRY release: Minor update.
5.2           16 Mar 2008     SILVERBERRY release: Important update.
5.3           11 May 2008     GOLDENBERRY release: Minor update.
5.4           21 Jul 2008       ANGLEBERRY release: Major update.
5.5           23 Nov 2008     FARKLEBERRY release: Minor update.
5.6           26 Jan 2009     WORCESTERBERRY release: Minor update.
6.0           23 Mar 2009     THIMBLEBERRY release: Major update.
6.1           30 Sep 2009     BUFFALOBERRY release: Minor update.
6.2           17 Mar 2010     ROWANBERRY release: Minor update.
6.3           30 Apr 2011      SWOZZLEBERRY release: Major update.
6.4           30 Aug 2011     VORTEXBERRY release: Minor update.
6.5           05 Apr 2012      TUNGSTENBERRY release: Minor update.
6.6           27 Nov 2012     YTTERBIUMBERRY release: Minor update.