From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 14:40:50 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 C8AA937B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:40:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.gssf.org (smtp.gssf.org [209.102.124.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A5B143F75 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lamsokvr@xprt.net) Received: from localhost.localdomain (pdx-ppp358.pop1.net [209.102.127.195]) by smtp.gssf.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id OAA04694; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:41:16 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: smtp.gssf.org: Host pdx-ppp358.pop1.net [209.102.127.195] claimed to be localhost.localdomain From: "Marvin J. Kosmal" To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 06 Aug 2003 14:40:53 -0700 Message-Id: <1060206058.696.10.camel@farm-libranet> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 21:40:51 -0000 On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:21, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: > For multiple reasons I am moving away from doing everything in perl/php for > server based tasks. Made sense at the time to do everything in the language we > used for the web as well, but am finding I do less web work and more server > admin work as time progreses, and there are some significant hits to loading > perl or php each time I want to move files and do other such tasks. As such I am > finding more and more tasks being performed in plain ol shell scripting, thousgh > this is still a hunt and peck type of operation fr the appropriate commands > etc... > > 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 != bash. I would prefer to use plain ol /bin/sh since most of the > core scripts scattered through the stable installs we have use it. > > Sugestions? Amazon links? > > Thanks > > Dave > Linux and Unix Shell Programming by David Tansley ISBN 0-201-67472-6 Published by Addison-Wesley Great book Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Marvin J. Kosmal Linux Activist Registered User # 88512 Brought to by Libranet 2.7