From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 12 12:55:59 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 A35E837B406 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7662443F0F for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:54:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8] helo=localhost) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 17eLF3-0003J7-00 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:52:41 -0700 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:52:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Good Book about shell scripting In-Reply-To: <3D580F54.FB0B315D@liwing.de> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 At Mon, 12 Aug 2002 it looks like Jens Rehsack composed: > Best book 'bout shell programming I ever read was 'Unix Shells by example' > by Ellie Quigley, ISBN 0-13-460866-6 > > It covers bourne shell, c-shell, korn-shell, awk, sed, grep. The shells > are covered in their interactive and in their programming modes. > I agree that the above is a good book albeit 3" (inches) thick. I personally would not leave home (and don't) without the book called: Linux and Unix Shell Programming; by David Tansley http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201674726/qid=1029181549/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-8095761-9729525 It's a small 6x8 inch book, fits with you anywhere and has EVERY form of shell script you can think of catagorized by function. Here, look at the table of contents. MAKE SURE TO VIEW ALL THE TABLE OF CONTENTS. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0201674726/reader/2/ref=lib_rd_TC01/104-8095761-9729525#reader-link -- |<--------------------------------72---------------------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message