From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 7:31:48 2002 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 7D63A37B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A9143E3B for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:31:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from spiral (spiral.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7CEVejB068325; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:31:41 +0100 (IST) From: "Barry Byrne" To: "Pascal Giannakakis" , Subject: RE: [OT] Good Book about shell scripting Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:31:39 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <22033.1029141558@www57.gmx.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pascal: It's a few years old now, but I've always thought 'Portable Shell Programming' by Bruce Blinn was an execellent book. Always keep it on my desk. Focus is primarily the Bourne shell (sh). Cheers, Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Pascal > Giannakakis > Sent: 12 August 2002 09:39 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: [OT] Good Book about shell scripting > > > Hello ppl, > > please excuse this offtopic mail, but i think, some of you will be able to > give me > some usefull tips, because most books will cover Linux / bash only. > > I need a book that covers shell scripting, preferably TCSH, bash > and others, > and not > only bash. It should also explain programs like sed or awk. What can you > recommend > me? I want to learn to sqeeze out the last bit of power out of > the shell! =) > > > The language can be either english or german. Thank you! > > > > PS: if you have links to good online-tuts, please post 'em too! > > > -- > GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. > http://www.gmx.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message