Computational Methods for Research in Speech Science

Shell programming

This page provides some useful resources to support the shell programming part of the course.

Free Software

• CYGWIN - Shell for Windows. A free Unix-like environment for Windows. CYGWIN provides you with a command-line shell running "bash" and a huge range of Unix software all converted to run on Windows.

On-line Tutorials & Reference Information

• What is a Shell?. From Wikipedia.
• The BASH Shell. From Wikipedia, with useful introductory links.
• A tutorial in setting up and getting started with CYGWIN. Covers downloading and installing CYGWIN in detail.
• CYGWIN Resources. Practical advice in using CYGWIN.
• Linux Tutorial for Beginners. An excellent introduction to using the Linux shell, which is largely, though not completely, compatible with the CYGWIN environment.
• Bash guide for beginners. Good introduction with exercises, although covers Linux rather than CYGWIN.
• Shell-Scripting tutorial. Comprehensive, but again based on Linux.
• Regular expression tutorial. Good introduction to pattern matching with egrep.
• British English word lists. Extracted from the British National Corpus by Adam Kilgarrif.

Books

• The Unix Programming Environment. Kernighan & Pike, Prentice Hall, 1983. Classic text on shell programming with the Bourne shell "sh".
• Learning the Bash Shell. O'Reilly Nutshell guide by C. Newham.

Answers to Exercises

4. showinfo.sh
5. middle.sh
6. sayhello.sh
7. timestable.sh
8. regular expressions
9. clue.sh
10. table1.awk, table2.awk