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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach View Larger Image | Chris F.A. Johnson
Apress, Paperback, Published May 2005, 421 pages, ISBN 1590594711 | List Price: $39.99
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This book is geared towards any Unix user who doesn't want to spend time creating or testing shell scripts. Instead, Shell Scripting Recipes dissects and explains over 150 much-needed and practical real-world examples, and then shows the reader how and when to appropriately use them.
Because most scripts found in this book are POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface)-compliant, they are supported by many of the major shell variants, including Bash, ksh and sh, among others. File conversion, system administration, and resource monitoring are just a few of the topics covered in this highly practical shell scripting reference.
Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities 1
CHAPTER 2 Playing with Files:Viewing, Manipulating,
and Editing Text Files 41
CHAPTER 3 String Briefs 61
CHAPTER 4 What’s in a Word? 81
CHAPTER 5 Scripting by Numbers 105
CHAPTER 6 Loose Names Sink Scripts:Bringing Sanity to Filenames 137
CHAPTER 7 Treading a Righteous PATH 157
CHAPTER 8 The Dating Game 165
CHAPTER 9 Good Housekeeping:Monitoring and Tidying Up
File Systems 185
CHAPTER 10 POP Goes the E-Mail 199
CHAPTER 11 PostScript:More Than an Afterthought 229
CHAPTER 12 Screenplay:The screen–funcs Library 251
CHAPTER 13 Backing Up the Drive 279
CHAPTER 14 Aging, Archiving, and Deleting Files 293
CHAPTER 15 Covering All Your Databases 303
CHAPTER 16 Home on the Web 323
CHAPTER 17 Taking Care of Business 345
CHAPTER 18 Random Acts of Scripting 361
CHAPTER 19 A Smorgasbord of Scripts 381
CHAPTER 20 Script Development Management 397
APPENDIX Internet Scripting Resources 407
INDEX 411
About the Author
Chris F.A. Johnson was introduced to Unix in 1990, and learned shell scripting because there was no C compiler on the system. His first major project was a menu-driven, user-extensible database system with report generator. Johnson constantly writes scripts to automate system administration tasks, and his recent shell projects have included a member database, menuing system, and POP3 mail filtering and retrieval. When not pushing shell scripting to the limit, Johnson teaches chess and composes cryptic crosswords.
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