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Date:      06 Aug 2003 14:40:53 -0700
From:      "Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr@xprt.net>
To:        "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: recommended book/guide for /bin/sh shell programming
Message-ID:  <1060206058.696.10.camel@farm-libranet>
In-Reply-To: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNIEPKDCAC.dave@hawk-systems.com>
References:  <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNIEPKDCAC.dave@hawk-systems.com>

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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





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