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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- Marvin J. Kosmal Linux Activist Registered User # 88512 Brought to by Libranet 2.7
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