From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 14:27:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE69337B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust38.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3173743F93 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.20) id 19kVoo-000PJ7-ST; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 22:27:38 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:27:38 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" Message-ID: <20030806212738.GR76053@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ijywFOGgtBfiIjQx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended book/guide for /bin/sh shell programming X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:27:46 -0000 --ijywFOGgtBfiIjQx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:21:16PM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >=20 > As such, am looking for recommendations for a good guide/book or two for = shell > programming, but most of the books seem to be specific to bash, tcsh, ksh, > etc... Given that there is a seperate bash shell port available, I would = assume > that /bin/sh !=3D bash. I would prefer to use plain ol /bin/sh since mos= t of the > core scripts scattered through the stable installs we have use it. Bash is certainly different, although it's a superset, so any sh scripts th= at you write should also work in bash. > Sugestions? Amazon links? My favourite one that covers most of the common shells is "Unix Shell Programming" by Stephen Kochan and Patrick Wood. I have the first edition which is from 1989, although there is a new edition released in March 2003 with ISBN 0672324903. I don't know that it's any good, but the first editi= on is great for beginners and I can't see any reason why the later edition wou= ld be any different. amazon.co.uk have both editions. Ceri --=20 User: DO YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR? Iniaes: Sure, I can accept all forms of payment. -- www.chatterboxchallenge.com --ijywFOGgtBfiIjQx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/MXLKocfcwTS3JF8RAiVZAKDCTwOavXQB5iIPXwUwgp6fzzyokACfTVVJ c8qobuxVlgZvfBpGwldJpCo= =QNqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ijywFOGgtBfiIjQx--