UNIX Shells by Example, 3rd Edition

By Ellie Quigley

Book Overview

Covers the most important UNIX utilities including the C shell, the Bourne Shell, the Korn Shell, grep, sed and awk. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM that contains all of the example programs from the book, additional source code, and a collection of shell programming utilities. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 013066538X
• ISBN13: 9780130665386
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Length: 1020 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

The best Unix Shell book I've ever read!

If want to learn about shells and you learn by example, like I do, this book is essential. The first 6 chapters (nearly 200 pages) goes over the basics of all shells; what they are, what they do, what programs are most used to manipulate data in them. There are whole chapters devoted to grep, sed and awk, and the author doesn't skimp on details. You will be a virtual grep/sed/awk guru by the time you learn everything in these...

Excellent single volume coverage of the shell options...

(This is a review of the 4th edition) As I start playing around more with Linux, I'd like to get into some shell programming. After reviewing Unix Shells By Example (4th Edition) by Ellie Quigley (Prentice-Hall), I think I've found the book I need to get started. Chapter List: Introduction to UNIX/Linux Shells; Shell Programming QuickStart; Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching; The grep Family; sed, The Streamlined...

Great book for beginngers as well as advanced users

I have been working with shells since about 5 years, and besides the "man" pages, this book has been the only one I ever used when writing shell scripts.I rarely comment on books, but I really felt this one needs my appreciation.The highlights of this book in my opinion are:- a large and very well index--it really helps you finding your answer quickly- very good introduction to shells and environments- very good introduction...

Learning by example

The 'Unix Shells By Example' is a well-known book in the field of shellscripting. It has about 640 pages with a CD-ROM included. The book is well edited, with good white-spacing and clarity in layout. Having taught the unix shells for over 15 years, the author really knows her stuff, and the text is factual and to the point.The index seems complete and one doesn't have a difficulty in finding the right info one is looking...

Outstanding Book. A must for learning shell programming.

Several of my fellow system engineers bought this book and they loved it. I purchased this book about three weeks ago and I have not put this book down! There are still several typos in the examples, but, like all programmers and engineers know, debugging is part of the job. In all honesty, fixing and tweaking the examples is actually fun. I strongly recommend creating the labs at the end of the chapter. These exercises...