Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

By Chris F.A. Johnson, Chris F.A. Johnson, Jayant Varma

Book Overview

In today's IT environment, harried system administrators are finding themselves more overworked than ever. This book helps them regain some of the lost time spent creating and testing shell scripts, and guides readers through more than 150 much-needed and practical real-world examples.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590594711
• ISBN13: 9781590594711
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

My Shell is a Programming Language?

This book was kind of an epiphany for me. I've been writing shell scripts for nearly as long as I've been writing programs, but I've always drawn a mental distinction between the two. There was programming, and then there was scripting. After coding in languages like Perl and then Ruby, the distinction has become increasingly blurred. Many of my "scripts" have proven far, far more useful than anything I've written in a "proper"...

Handy Shell Guide for Unix/Linux Users

Shell Scripting Recipes provides the reader with a handy reference for shell tasks that range from the common (how do I extract a portion of a string?) to the complex but sometimes entertaining (find words that fit together on a grid aka make your own crossword). The author does a great job in his layout by presenting the problem, listing the solution and then explaining how it works. The script solutions and examples are...

Great resource for Bourne-type shell scripting

If you are using a Bourne-type shell, and BASH in particular then you will find a lot of valuable information in this book. Author Chris F. A. Johnson provides an extensive education on scripting including scripts for viewing, editing, and manipulating files, manipulating strings, altering the path variable, monitoring the file system, filtering spam, backing up, archiving, deleting, and many other common tasks. How far...

Wonderful resource

Although all the expected mundane script tricks and tips are here, I was surprised that Chris tackles tasks that I would have given up on and turned to Perl or other higher level languages. Great book, you will learn a lot. Everything you'd expect and much, much more. Highly recommended, probably the best scripting book I've read.

Great book for "R & D"...

I'm a strong believer in "R & D"... "Rob & Duplicate". Rather than reinvent the wheel, I'd prefer find code that works and use/modify it to fit my purposes. Chris F. A. Johnson has a book that fits that mindset perfectly... Shell Scripting Recipes - A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress). Chapter List: The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities; Playing With Files - Viewing, Manipulating, And Editing Text Files; String...