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I am a beginner to shell scripting. I have not yet hardly coded a single program, but I am interested in learning it completely. Can anyone suggest some good online resources which will guide me?

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Can you specify a bit what you want to do? There is too much to read for an entire lifetime based on the current question. – l0b0 Mar 15 '11 at 12:00

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This answer focuses on Bash.

Probably the advanced bash scripting guide can help you. It has even be translated to French (on traduc.org).

Also read the pitfalls and the FAQ from Greg's wiki.

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+1 advanced bash scripting is a great resource – Let_Me_Be Mar 15 '11 at 13:09
ABS is great, but maybe not the place to start learning for a complete beginner. – chris Mar 15 '11 at 16:14
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You can check out this site: Writing Shell Scripts. Things have been explained in a very simple language, and the flow is quite good.

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The best free source for shell scripting I've seen so far: http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~gboyd/cs160b/online/index.html

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It is probably worth you while reading the man page for bash (type man bash at your prompt) as it covers quite a lot of useful information in a concise manner. Also look at some of the other man pages such as test (used with if... while... statments), awk and sed. You will find other tutorials probably easier or more useful to read as a beginner, but you will definitely come back to the man pages regularly so it helps to get to know them.

My Ubuntu shell has a program called vimtutor which looks useful for learning vi.

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