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Title: UNIX Shells by Example (3rd Edition) by Ellie Quigley ISBN: 0-13-066538-X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 24 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best practical shell programming book on the market.
Comment: UNIX Shells is a great book for both novice and experienced programmer. For once, somebody has written a computer book that is down to earth, clear, and replete with examples. You don't have to wade through pages of punishing prose or be a guru to understand this book. Each line of code in the examples is concisely yet fully explained. There's no guessing as to why any of the hundreds of sample scripts work the way they do. If your goal is to learn shell programming quickly so you can put it to use at work, this is the book to get.
Rating: 5
Summary: Three shells plus grep, sed and awk in one place!
Comment: This books is great--the three most popular shells, and the regular expression manipulation tools as well, all in one place.
I've recently changed from using csh to using ksh, and finding examples of how the syntax is handled in the new shell has been invaluable. My boss now thinks I'm a shell programming wizard!
The best thing about this book is that it is compiled from the author's coursework. These examples have all been tried in classes through the UC Extension, and they're designed to teach students at various levels of expertise. I've been a unix system administrator for several years now and I use this book on a regular basis. I recommended this book to a novice sys admin who had never written a script before, and he was able to get started quickly using this as a reference. Some books just seem to make your job easier. This is definitely one for me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book for beginngers as well as advanced users
Comment: I have been working with shells since about 5 years, and besides the "man" pages, this book has been the only one I ever used when writing shell scripts.
I rarely comment on books, but I really felt this one needs my appreciation.
The highlights of this book in my opinion are:
- a large and very well index--it really helps you finding your answer quickly
- very good introduction to shells and environments
- very good introduction to regular expressions
- very good introductions to the very important utilities grep, sed, and awk
- detailed sections with many examples for interactive usage of shells as well as programming shell scripts
For many people the sections on the c shell, korn shell and TC shell may seem unnecessary, since (I assume) the majority is using the bash shell. However, some things in those sections apply to the bash shell as well, and besides that one never knows which shell one has to work with one day--so by having it all in one book, you should be set.
Last but not least I would like to add that there is no need for reading this book from start to finish, you can just jumpt right into any section, as I have always done ;)
Get this book if you want a great all-round book on shells, and should you still get stuck, type "man ..."
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Title: Perl by Example (3rd Edition) by Ellie Quigley ISBN: 0130282510 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 07 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting by Randal K. Michael ISBN: 0471218219 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 31 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Unix Shell Programming, Third Edition by Stephen Kochan, Patrick Wood ISBN: 0672324903 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 27 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: sed & awk (2nd Edition) by Arnold Robbins, Dale Dougherty ISBN: 1565922255 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 02 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) by Sriranga Veeraraghavan ISBN: 0672323583 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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