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Wicked Cool Shell Scripts

By Dave Taylor

Book information

Publisher
No Starch Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0321321936
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2741965 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
338\338
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The UNIX shell is the main scripting environment of every Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX system, whether a rescued laptop or a million-dollar mainframe. This cookbook of useful, customizable, and fun scripts gives you the tools to solve common Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX problems and personalize your computing environment. Among the more than 100 scripts included are an interactive calculator, a spell checker, a disk backup utility, a weather tracker, and a web logfile analysis tool. The book also teaches you how to write your own sophisticated shell scripts by explaining the syntax and techniques used to build each example scripts. Examples are written in Bourne Shell (sh) syntax.

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