Essential System Administration, Third Edition

Classic Shell Scripting

Shell

Unix Shell Commands Quick Reference (Que Quick Reference Series)

Format: Paperback
Author: William Holliker
ReleaseDate: October, 1990
Publisher: Que Pub
Rating:

Excellent reference for the casual UNIX shell programmer
It treats topics like logical operators, arithmetic, programming constructs (if, for, while, etc. This little (152-page) book takes the mystery out of Bourne and Korn shell programming.) giving numerous, concise examples. Applications for standard commands are presented including a large vi reference section. I particularly like the explanation of the "exec" command - easy to understand yet thorough, like the entire book. I don't do enough UNIX scripts to warrant wading through a huge reference book and I suspect there are many others like myself. If you are a competent programmer in two or more languages, this book should be enough to get you on your way doing shell programming.