[LBo] books for shell scripting

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Tim Cruikshank wrote:

> On January 5, 2007 00:33, Ray wrote:
>>> Greetings to all of you ~
>>>
>>> I am trying to take shell script serious and start the first step of
>>> shell
>>> programmer. Do you guys out there have some recommendation of books on
>>> this
>>> topic? I am already familiar with the basic of bash shell script.
>>
>> I came across this while doing some research. I haven't had time to fully
>> evaluate it though.
>> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
>
> Another one to consider is "Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution
> Approach" by Chris F.A. Johnson, who is also a contributing member of this
> group.

     Thank you for that.

     I should point out that it is not a tutorial or a how-to; it is a
     collection of scripts, many (even most) of which can be used
     without modification. The text describes what the scripts do more
     than how they work. (Each script has a "How It Works" section, but
     it describes the script in quite general terms.)

     Once you are comfortable with the basic of shell scripting,
     however, I believe it will make a good resource, both for the
     scripts themselves and also as examples of what can be done with
     shell scripting and how to do it.

     There is a detailed table of contents at
     <http://members.torfree.net/chris/books/cfaj/Contents.html>, and a
     sample chapter is at
     <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell/ssr/08-The-Dating-Game.shtml>.

> http://members.torfree.net/chris/books/cfaj/ssr.html
>
> There is lots of useful info on his website as well.
> http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell/


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    Chris F.A. Johnson                      <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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    Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)