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Title: Learning the Korn Shell (2nd Edition) by Bill Rosenblatt, Arnold Robbins ISBN: 0-596-00195-9 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.41 (27 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent beginner book
Comment: If you are new to the Korn Shell then this is a great buy. Start here to learn Flow Control, Regular Expressions, I/O and command-line processing, background job referencing, and debugging. This text also covers basic emacs and Vi operations as well as ways to customize your environment in UNIX.

I picked this book up as a supplement to learning UNIX. The index proved helpful when I was learning a new command or searching for a solution to my problem. I like the book because it is easier to use than trying to scour the web for solutions. This book will at least narrow the task and help you know what to look for on the web.

Rating: 4
Summary: Great book, but has some flaws
Comment: I have owned this book since 1996 and I used it as my introduction to Korn shell programming. To the credit of the book, I was able to become very adept at Korn shell and I have written some amazing scripts. However, I must admit that some sections of this book are misleading, confusing and downright incomprehensible. It took many re-readings of some chapters before the author's lesson was brought to light. I would recommend this book as a Korn shell reference, but it is probably not the best place to start for a Korn shell beginner. I am finding this to be true for a lot of the books by O'Reilly & Associates.

Rating: 3
Summary: Learning the Korn Shell
Comment: I found the book not usefull at all. Simple things on how to write a loop is so full of text without addressing the simple issue of how to write a simple while loop with a counter. I found the examples sparse and irrelevant to what i was doing.

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