I am interested to acquire a small amount of intermediate knowledge in Linux, I would like to learn to write scripts using Linux operation, I am preparing for Red-Hat Certification sometime next year. How does it differ from other web-scripting languages such as Php, Ruby? Furthermore, can you direct me to some links on how to write Linux?.
How Linux differs from other scripting languages?
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Linux is a whole operating system, just like Windows. You usually use a shell like bash to run any commands on it. If you want to connect from a Windows box to a remote linux box you can use putty.But those are very different things. You run putty on your local windows box. It will connect to the remote linux box and present you a shell which allows you to issue commands on that box.The scripting language you are referring to is probably that bash shell. But bash is not linux specific. You can have bash for windows, too. For example if you install git it also gives you a really nice bash called git-bash, which allows you exactly the same type of scripting as on linux.Also be aware that there are no real web-scripiting languages. Bash is never used for serving web sites. Ruby is not the same as ruby on rails and even for php it is perfectly possible to write applications that do nothing web related at all. 