On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Bill wrote:
> I am stuck with using this book for the duration of the class; but
> can anyone recommend a GOOD shell programming book to learn from?
O'Reilly (both recommended)
Sed and Awk
Unix PowerTools
,,, Reading good code is how I learned effective Shell
programming -- and Unix Power Tools is full of such fragments.
But reading BAD Shell is helpful too, to note what to avoid.
Obviously the advent of free POSIX compliant operating systms
have made it possible to follow, and test, at home, and in
real time -- what previously had to wait until a Unix computer
was available at school or work. Hoo-Ray. But at the expense
of desh-checking skills.
The ORA Bash book may be skipped --
Working through the intro ORA Perl books is a bass-ackwards
(but effective) way to learn Shell -- but perhaps overkill.
Web/LUG resources:
http://static.colug.net/books/bashref.pdf and in the same
tree, textutils.pdf and gawk.pdf are also worthwhile.
http://rholbert.colug.net/ -- several
-- Russ
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