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KornShell Programming Tutorial

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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.

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.

I was looking for a book on introductory Korn shell programming and I came to Amazon to find one. I have several O'Reilly books and I naturally went to find a book from them but when I read the reviews I was disappointed. The reviewers said the O'Reilly book was poorly written etc and several said they were expecting a book like Barry Rosenberg's. I naturally went to find Barry's book and all the reviewers loved his book. I said 'ok what do I know' and I followed their advice and bought the book. I took it to work and showed it one of our senior Unix admins and he flipped it through it and was amazed. He was in the middle of writing some monitoring programs and he said the book covered some material on number substitution he was not able to find in any of the books on Korn Shell programming that he had. He was very impressed with the book and yep you guessed it he borrowed the book. Since he has taught me a lot of what I know about Unix I couldn't say no. So now when I need a book on a technical subject I am interested in I read the reviews and order it. The advice alone is worth the shipping. I am tired of buying books that gloss over the subject and give newbies nothing to build on except a few buzz words. This book is not one of those.

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.

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.

I have worked in IT industry for 18 years and have been teaching last 2 years through a volunteering organization. The students' response were excellent, excellent, excellent!!! Using this book five years ago, I have successfully developed a Korn Shell script that efficiently managed hundreds of UNIX servers for a major airline.

This is one of the best books in the market for KORN SHELL Programming. The author explains each and every topic with one small example which makes it very easy to understand. I read this book within 1 week and was programming in KORN Shell. Any one who really wants to learn KORN shell programming should buy this book without hesitating. The author has done a really good job.

This is the best book I have even read on Korn Shell Programming. The book starts with the very basic and explains each and every topic with a small exmaple. It has lots of examples which you can use for future reference. After reading this book I can really write Korn Shell Scripts with no difficulty. Do not waste time in buying any other books. This is a very good book for begineers and for intermidiate Programmers. WORTH THE PRICE.

Thought the author did an excellant job getting right into the details with great examples that worked, all of them. This book is good for the beginner non-programmer types as well as the programming professionals. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a good foundation in KornShell programming.

this book has been great for those who have just started scripting, because the examples are relevent to real world usage. it not only teaches syntactically correct ksh, but also how to build readable and maintainable scripts. also, i haven't found a feature of ksh that it does not cover. it is well organized, starting out with simple, but fundamental elements and building on them.