[lug] BASH Scripting book recommendations?

[jhswope at gmail.com]

Thus spake the Curmudgeon ;-) He is right though. Still a need for Cobol  
programmers as well.

Jack

On , "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> A serious question, for which I can think of two serious answers

> (1) Horses for courses


> Some problems are better solved in the shell. "Better" can mean faster to  
> code, easier to maintain, or more suited to the language in other ways.  
> It's the same answer for "Why bother to write in Perl? Every system I  
> work on has Java."




> (2) Most programming isn't writing code.


> Most programming is maintenance -- fixing someone else's code. (Or your  
> own that you wrote so long ago that you don't remember why you wrote it  
> that way.)




> Sometimes, especially in a Linux world, that code is in shell scripts.  
> Even if your fix is a Perl script, you often have to be able to read, and  
> sometimes debug, the original code. If you're facing this, bash is a  
> different enough language that even knowing a bunch of C or Perl or  
> Python or Tcl may still leave you at sea.



> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Rob Nagler nagler at bivio.biz> wrote:


> Probably not what you want to hear, but....



> #!/usr/bin/interpreter>



> Why bother scripting? Every system I work on has Perl, Python, Tcl,

> etc. Sometimes I have to modify shell scripts, but usually that's

> system config so I program the mods in Perl and write tests against

> them.



> Happy New Year!



> :)



> Rob

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