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Hi Jabbok,
Here we go with the old "which is the best" question. Like most things in life which is the best is usually a matter of preference, the task at hand and the tools available.
But in any case if you are just starting out in unix shell scripting, I would recommend a unix-like OS like Linux and a shell that is quite universal and comes with most distributions like 'bash', you would like to also get familiar with most of the unix command line tools like sed, awk, grep.
When you get a bit proficient you might want to look at other options like perl and python
Ubuntu Linux http://www.ubuntu.com/is an easy to use OS to start with.
If you only have access to a window machine you might want to look at cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ which provide most of the unix tools on windows.
You might also find a good bash scripting guide at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ or google 'bash scripting' i any case always remember 'google is your friend'