Hey Marty - Here's a couple links I have bookmarked.. Bash: http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash/html_mono/bashref.html Advanced Bash: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html AWK scripting: http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/html_chapter/gawk_toc.html Sed(yummy): http://man-pages.net/linux/man1/sed.1.html Shout if you have more questions on your road to shell scripting nirvana :) .djc. Marty Landman wrote: > I'd appreciate some online references for learning scripting on a Unix > server. I'm experienced at Perl and PHP and CGI on that environment but > would also like to learn how to make my life a little easier when using > telnet type of stuff.