On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 07:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Michael Griffin wrote: > > > Try Linux Shell Script Programming by Todd Meadors. > > > > It is put out by Thompson Course Technology (http://www.course.com). > > > > The first few chapters are a bit basic, but as a textbook for learning, > > I have used it a lot. > > hmmm ... i briefly browsed over there and, without seeing the actual > material, i have to say i'm leery of scripting material whose > downloadable student files are a windows .exe file. but that's just > my first impression. > > rday > Granted, but the book's cd itself is UNIX text-based. It has nice examples and covers many different shell topics. Michael
