[lug] Shell Script Reading

[Gus Huber]

I would also like to recommend O'Reilly's sed and awk book as well
for handy ninjah trick.  the awk programing book is good as well, but
a little off topic

	cheers,
		gus huber <gus at pbx.org>


On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:20:54AM -0600, B. O'Fallon wrote:
> Stephen Smith wrote:
> > I am looking for recommendations on reading to do
> > to gain experience with shell scripting..
> > Websites?
> > Books?
> 
> I've found the following books useful:
> 
> 	Linux Shells by Example. Ellen Quigley. Prentice-Hall, 2000. ISBN
> 0-13-014711-7. This is a basic introduction to grep, sed, awk, bash and
> tcsh programming. It has the most detailed information about the various
> options for shell programming that I've seen and so is a good reference.
> 
> 	Unix Shell Programming. Stephen Kochan and Patrick Wood. Hayden Books
> (SAMS), 1990. ISBN 0-672-48448-X. Very detailed on Unix programming,
> considered a classic. While some of the information has been overtaken
> by events of the newer shells, the basics are still very well taught and
> justify its classic status.
> 	
> 	Linux and Unix Shell Programming. David Tansley. Addison-Wesley, 2000.
> ISBN 0-201-67472-6. If you can afford only one book, this is the one I
> would buy: it covers grep, awk, sed, the bash shell and the shell
> environment very well.
> 
> 	Learning the Bash Shell. Cameron Newham and Bill Rosenblatt. O'Reilly,
> 1998. ISBN 1-56592-347-2. This is from O'Reilly: what else need be said?
> In spite of that, I don't like it that well as it is not always very
> clear and the examples not always very good.
> 
> All of these should be available from SoftPro Books in Boulder/Denver,
> or from Bookpool (www.bookpool.com). Bookpool for sure has the Unix
> Shell Programming book, which may be hard to find as it is so old.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> BOF
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