Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X: The Fourth Edition of Unix Shell Programming (4th Edition) (Developer's Library) 4th Edition

by Stephen G. Kochan (Author), Patrick Wood (Author)

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Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X is a thoroughly updated revision of Kochan and Wood’s classic Unix Shell Programming tutorial. Following the methodology of the original text, the book focuses on the POSIX standard shell, and teaches you how to develop programs in this useful programming environment, taking full advantage of the underlying power of Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

After a quick review of Unix utilities, the book’s authors take you step-by-step through the process of building shell scripts, debugging them, and understanding how they work within the shell’s environment. All major features of the shell are covered, and the large number of practical examples make it easy for you to build shell scripts for your particular applications. The book also describes the major features of the Korn and Bash shells.

Learn how to…

Take advantage of the many utilities provided in the Unix system
Write powerful shell scripts
Use the shell’s built-in decision-making and looping constructs
Use the shell’s powerful quoting mechanisms
Make the most of the shell’s built-in history and command editing capabilities
Use regular expressions with Unix commands
Take advantage of the special features of the Korn and Bash shells
Identify the major differences between versions of the shell language
Customize the way your Unix system responds to you
Set up your shell environment
Make use of functions
Debug scripts

Contents at a Glance

1 A Quick Review of the Basics

2 What Is the Shell?

3 Tools of the Trade

4 And Away We Go

5 Can I Quote You on That?

6 Passing Arguments

7 Decisions, Decisions

8 ‘Round and ‘Round She Goes

9 Reading and Printing Data

10 Your Environment

11 More on Parameters

12 Loose Ends

13 Rolo Revisited

14 Interactive and Nonstandard Shell Features

A Shell Summary

B For More Information

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Stephen Kochan is the author or co-author of several best-selling titles on Unix and the C language, including Programming in C, Programming in Objective-C, Topics in C Programming, and Exploring the Unix System. He is a former software consultant for AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he developed and taught classes on Unix and C programming.

Patrick Wood is the CTO of the New Jersey location of Electronics for Imaging. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories when he met Mr. Kochan in 1985. Together they founded Pipeline Associates, Inc., a Unix consulting firm, where he was vice president. They co-authored Exploring the Unix System, Unix System Security, Topics in C Programming, and Unix Shell Programming.

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Series: Developer's Library
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 4 edition (September 10, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0134496000
ISBN-13: 978-0134496009
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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Customer Reviews: 9 customer ratings
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #720,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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M. L. Graham

Yoo basic for a 20_ year writer of shell scripts

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I have been writing shell scripts for 20+ years, I found ;ittle new in this book. YMMVv

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Very good and easy to follow book into Shell programming

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Got that book just a few days ago but couldn't stop reading. Well written and pretty easy to follow even for non-native English speakers. All concepts are well explained and example codes are easy to grasp. Step by step the reader is guided from the simple to more sophisticated application of shell commands and little programs. This book was bought as a refresher for myself already working in IT for 20+ years. I have built-up a nice parallel cluster out of 15 Raspberry Pi B3+ computers - fully maintained via console from my iMac. So I needed a good book on shell programming to automate and get better to handle a lot of tasks in the day-to-day operation of my new little "Raspi Beast" running on Raspbian Linux. And guess what? This book is the one that helped me getting a lot better on doing some nice "console magic". Just a great book - love it and recommend it.

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Professionale, ben scritto e sufficientemente approfondito negli aspetti che tratta. Ogni capitolo va prima letto senza soffermarsi particolarmente, per poi tornarci sopra in approfondimento.

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Excelente libro para aprender el Shell basados en Linux

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Excelente libro para aprender el Shell basados en Linux

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