Linux scripts are very generic. If it works for 1.0 it probably works for 8.7 too.
The point is, what do you want your script to do.
This decides what language you should write your script in.
Most common languages for scripting are SHELL (bash/sh/zsh/tcsh)
and PERL. PERL is very popular for website scripting (cgi-bin)
Type these words in a search engine and you'll get tons of pages that teach you scripting.