Kornshell Programming Tutorial

by Barry Rosenberg

Book Overview

"This book is full of useful examples which will benefit anyone interested in programming in KornShell, especially novices."-David Korn, AT & T Bell Labs, Creator of KornShell The KornShell is the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020156324X
• ISBN13: 9780201563245
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The authority for Kornshell

This is the best book I have seen on shell programming. I tried three other books before I found this one. This book is great because it offers examples, shows the output from the examples, and also describes them extremely well.The other books I tried, and did not like are :The Korn Shell: User & Programming Manual - I didn't like it because it lacked information on string handling. It seemed alright though.Unix Shells by Example - Too many examples, if there is such a thing. The author didn't describe what was going on as well as this book does. The layout is confusing too.Unix Shell programmer's interactive workbook - You need to be sitting at a computer to use this one. Wasn't very effective while reading it on the train.

Perfect for Beginning Programmers

This book contains hundreds of examples. I ran every one of them, and they work just as well on Linux Kornshell as they do on an AIX Kornshell, with very few exceptions. I have gone from knowing literally no Kornshell/Unix scripting to now being able to script almost anything I need to do. The content of the book is written on a level that anyone can understand, and the author's writing style is never boring. It is laid out in a manner that makes it easy to look up anything later. A "Must Have" for anyone wanting to learn Kornshell.

Excellent Tutorial and Reference Manual

This book was my first introduction to Kornshell Programming. With this book, I was writing fairly complex Kornshell scripts in just a few weeks. The book is also an excellent reference manual. I highly recommend this book for the beginner.

Impressed a tough critic!

The KornShell Programming Tutorial should be the model for all technical books. It is well organized and extremely well written. The book provides a ton of examples, and output is provided for each one--what a concept! Reading this book has enabled me to write support and debugging scripts for the program I currently work on, and if I need to refer to the book, I can find the topic quickly. The writing style is crystal-clear and right-to-the-point, and the humorous touches round out everything nicely. Thanks to Barry Rosenberg for caring enough to write a book on Korn Shell programming that a novice could actually read, understand, and apply.