Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:38:24 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, yuri@rawbw.com Subject: Re: Maybe somebody knows a good Bourne Shell book or tutorial? Message-ID: <201412152038.sBFKcOX4016261@host203.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <54892F4C.1030906@rawbw.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Dec 11 13:22:19 2014 > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:44:44 -0800 > From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> > To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: Maybe somebody knows a good Bourne Shell book or tutorial? > > Asking here because it is used in FreeBSD a lot. > > Most google queries about Bourne Shell aspects bring answers like this: > Not sure, but if this was in bash, you could <blah blah blah> .... > And most documents found online aren't comprehensive, and only cover > beginner questions. No books on amazon look promising either. > > There are some quite tricky areas and questions about sh and hard to > find information. > > Anybody knows of some good book that would cover all essential issues of > Bourne shell programming? for _good_ computer books, see O'Reilly & Associates http://www.ora.com They have at least half-a-dozen titles on shell scripting, depending on which varient you want. I don't think they still have anything on the actual Bourne shell, but the POSIX-standard sh is Bourne with only a little added syntactic sugar.
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