Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:50:32 -0500 (CDT) From: burningclown@burningclown.com To: "Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr@xprt.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: recommended book/guide for /bin/sh shell programming Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308061647430.10317-100000@westhost42.westhost.net> In-Reply-To: <1060206058.696.10.camel@farm-libranet>
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may have already been mentioned, Bruce Blinn, Portable Shell Programming: An Extensive Collection of Bourne Shell Examples good stuff -glenn becker On 6 Aug 2003, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > 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" > > > -- +-----------------------------+ There are no motionless targets +-----------------------------+
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