On Wed, 25 May 2005, Paul Howarth wrote: > To add to this, I can heartily recommend the book "The Unix > Programming Environment" by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike (see: > http://cm.bell- labs.com/cm/cs/upe/). It's an excellent introduction > not only to "sh" scripting but also to the entire philosophy of the > way things work in Unix (and it all applies equally well to Linux of > course). It also introduces you to sed, awk and a few other tools. > It's really really good. Really. FWIW, o'reilly has a new scripting book, "Classic Shell Scripting," http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/shellsrptg/ DISCLAIMER: i was one of the tech reviewers on an early draft. the focus of the book is on the POSIX standard, of which i thoroughly approve. rday
