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Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: Bash, Bourne, and Korn Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators, and UNIX Gurus |  | Author: Randal K. Michael
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 250650
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 1032
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 2.3
ISBN: 0470183012
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780470183014
ASIN: 0470183012
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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UNIX expert Randal K. Michael guides you through every detail of writing shell scripts to automate specific tasks. Each chapter begins with a typical, everyday UNIX challenge, then shows you how to take basic syntax and turn it into a shell scripting solution. Covering Bash, Bourne, and Korn shell scripting, this updated edition provides complete shell scripts plus detailed descriptions of each part. UNIX programmers and system administrators can tailor these to build tools that monitor for specific system events and situations, building solid UNIX shell scripting skills to solve real-world system administration problems.
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 Excellent Book... December 24, 2004
S. Johnson (Jacksonville Beach, FL United States)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books on Unix shell scripting I have ever read. I immediately put a few of the scripts to work in our Solaris production environment. Be warned though; this book focuses entirely on the Korn shell. If you plan to write scripts using the Bourne, BASH, or C-shell you should find another book.
It made money for me. August 12, 2003
Oracle DBA (Atlanta, GA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm shell scripting pretty good. But I had to write a script for a customer to extract some drive statistics and another to hide some passwords from a log that I had no control over... I was kinda shaking over it.
However, this is a moderate to advanced book which showed me how to find what I was looking for. There aren't that many advanced books on shell scripting. It has many good real world examples. Two guys from my office bought their own. And best of all... It made me money!! Yes, It's worth your time and your money.
You will use Google to fill in the blanks, but this is a great book May 20, 2009
Matthias03
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thank goodness for this book. It's a big, 3" thick book, that's more of a reference guide to do a bunch of really useful tasks. Example, you "could" start at page 1, but there's no point. Check the TOC or Appendix, pick what you want to learn, and just go directly to it.
I'm not as versed in other Unix areas as I'd like to be, thus why I got the book, but it does seem to have a good examples of what's going to work w/ one shell vs. another.
It's helped my career out in a big way. Heh, I mean, just tucking my shirt in and carrying a big 3" thick book around makes me appear smart. :-) "Dude, look at that 'Shell scripting' book, it's big, and he has his shirt tucked in today, he means business". Yeah buddy, you got that straight!
I don't think this is for beginners, like me, it doesn't "explain" a lot of what you're doing, at least in the detail that my cat-like brain needs, but hey, that's what Google's for. What it does give the beginner, is lots of questions to take else where, and I learned from those other areas. Example, I joined "unix.com's" forums because of this book, there I met a bunch of people that are so insanely smart, it's "insane", (seriously, how in the world do people know this stuff? One of the coolest websites I've been to was "nobodyisbornwithlinuxknowledge.com", or something like that). It also gives us beginners the concept behind what it's doing, therefore, you're now smart enough to ask the mighty oracle called "Google" the right question, to get the right answer.
I love this book, period, and I hate 3" books, particularly 3" books that are of a technical content. The information in this book is very valuable, moreso, it encouraged me to spread out to other areas, and it opened me up, to the open source world. Am I a scripting genius w/ this book in my hands, no, did I write 3 scripts w/in a month that is going to save my group a lot of money and man power, yes, yes yes! Did it make this lazy man's job easier, oh my yes.
... I love this book, and I'm a beginner, w/ his shirt tucked in now, (well at least Mon-Wed). :-)
Highly recommended September 8, 2007
Thomas A. Simpson (Jacksonville, FL.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought the book was excellent. Each example program is thoroughly explained. The example programs are very useful and well written. The examples will work for the most common Unix variants. A library of functions are provided that can be used to build more complex programs.
I am a seasoned system administrator with a lot of programming experience but I have a limited amount of experience with Unix and AIX. This book helped me get up-to-speed with common system administration tasks such as resource monitoring and notification.
WOW...You will love this book! October 22, 2007
C. Hernandez (Southern California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great! I Recently landed a job as a Systems Administrator (Solaris), and I needed to know how to script. With little scripting experience (and me not wanting to loose the job of my dreams); I picked this book up. All I can say is WOW. What a GREAT book. It describes step by step what to do, how it's done and why it's done. Although it's exclusively KSH, it does have the same script written in different formats so that it works with Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and other Unicies.
This book assumes that you know SOME basic scripting skills. Beginners would have to learn some basic scripting and (more importantly) understand the concept besides the actual command(s). I recommend this book for, nonetheless, to everyone who wants/needs to script. Happy scripting!
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