Beginning Shell Scripting

by Eric Foster-Johnson, John C. Welch, Micah Anderson

Book Overview

Covering all major platforms-Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows-this guide shows programmers and power users how to customize an operating system, automate commands, and simplify administration tasks using shell scripts Offers complete shell-scripting instructions, robust code examples, and full scripts for OS customization Covers shells as a user interface, basic scripting techniques, script editing and debugging, graphing data, and simplifying administrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764583204
• ISBN13: 9780764583209
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Impressed

assuming that you're focused on using BASH and you're not trying to push the limits of shell scripting, this is a great book. perhaps I'm just lucky, but all the things i've needed to know to get a quick-dirty solution is in this text. plus, the book seems to give useful examples.

Great for Beginners!

This book is great for shell beginners. I got it with the hopes that it would teach from the ground up and it does that without losing the reader. It starts with a good history of *nix and lets you choose what shell to use. It teaches all the basic shell commands and gives the reader a good knowledge of the underlying *nix core. I recommend this book to any beginner interested in shell programming.

Easy way to scripting.

It is nice , useful book. I found it to be the nice match to the Linux and UNIX for a beginner training suite, 4DVDs + 2CDs includes 4 Unix Academy Certifications ed.2008. They supplement one another very nicely and helpfully. It is easy to read and follow, the examples are clear and well described. Overall very nice effort!

Nice way to get started with shell scripting...

Shell scripting is one of those things I keep telling myself I need to learn but never quite get around to it. The Wrox book Beginning Shell Scripting by Eric Foster-Johnson, John C. Welsh, and Micah Anderson might be the book I end up using to get me there. Chapter List: Introducing Shells; Introducing Shell Scripts; Controlling How Scripts Run; Interacting With The Environment; Scripting With Files; Processing Text with sed; Processing Text with awk; Creating Command Pipelines; Controlling Processes; Shell Scripting Functions; Debugging Shell Scripts; Graphing Data With MRTG; Scripting For Administrators; Scripting For The Desktop; Answers To Exercises; Useful Commands; Index This book has something for just about every beginning user. As a "Beginning" Wrox book, it's meant to take you from no knowledge to basic competency. Normally when you think of shell scripts, you think Unix. But this book goes beyond that. The authors include just about every OS in their coverage. Unix and Linux users are obviously taken care of, as I'd expect. But they also address Mac OS X users so that they can start to delve under the covers of their operating system. They even include Windows users by having them download the Cygwin software. Overall, the focus is on the Bourne shell, but special features of the others (like C, bash, and Korn) are also addressed as they come up. Overall, you get coverage on just about everything you could want as a beginner. With the combination of "Try It Out" and "How It Works" examples in the book, beginners should quickly be able to do something with their new knowledge. To me, that's always the sign of a good beginning level book on a subject... get the reader doing something productive quickly. Beginning Shell Scripting meets that criteria.