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Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
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by Dave Taylor
Sales Rank: 235150
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List Price: $29.95
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Paperback: 488 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press; 1st edition January 15, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593270127
ISBN-13: 978-1593270124
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"A great resource for intermediate to experienced shell programmers." -- WebDevReviews
"Far above anything else available… This is the book that every other publisher tries to imitate." -- LinuxWorld, January 2005
"Good examples of what can be done, and how to go about it." -- Major Keary Book News, 2004 No. 9
"If you already know how to write rudimentary Unix scripts, here are some tools that'll really float your boat." -- Epinions.com
"a quite comprehensive explanation of shell scripting with plenty of really good and practical examples" -- Lehigh Valley Linux User Group, March 2004
"an excellent book which will extend your knowledge and provide more than a hundred ready-to-run scripts" -- MacBlog.com
"suggested reading for anyone who enjoys shell scripting or is responsible for administrating systems" -- ITworld.com, March 2004
A hands-on book. Not really a tutorial, but more of a cross-platform scripting cookbook. -- MacCompanion, August 2005,
Product Description
Fun and functional Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX shell scripts The UNIX shell is the main scripting environment of every Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX system, whether a rescued laptop or a million-dollar mainframe. This cookbook of useful, customizable, and fun scripts gives you the tools to solve common Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX problems and personalize your computing environment. Among the more than 100 scripts included are an interactive calculator, a spell checker, a disk backup utility, a weather tracker, and a web logfile analysis tool. The book also teaches you how to write your own sophisticated shell scripts by explaining the syntax and techniques used to build each example scripts. Examples are written in Bourne Shell (sh) syntax.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I often take a dim view of books that use superlatives in their titles. I also don't think there is anything "wicked cool" about shell scripting in general: if you need anything complex at all, Perl or something else is probably a much better way to to it. Shell scripting gets awfully nasty awfully fast. However, I was wrong. Yes, shell scripting is an abominable way to approach most of the tasks this book explores. Just the same, the author does it "wicked cool" and you can learn a lot both from how he sees the problem and the other Unix tools he uses as part of the script. So while you might shudder at the idea of writing a link-checker in Bash, the author's clever use of Lynx's "traverse" flag is something you might make use of elsewhere. You'll find useful things like that throughout the book, and even if you'd rather write it in Perl or whatever, the logic is worth examining. Mac OS X users will appreciate that a whole chapter is devoted to that. There's nothing particularly deep there, nothing you will be surprised by, but it's nice to see Mac get specific mention. That brings up another important point: shells are different and Unixes are different. The author does pay a lot of attention to the differences that can cause problems for your scripts when they need to run on different platforms.
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Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
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