On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 11:24, Kim Lux wrote: > Sorry for the off topic post. Does anyone know of a really good book > that covers writing scripts ? > > Preferably this book will have lots of examples and covers some of the > more esoteric and hidden stuff. > > Is this one any good ? > http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Shell-Script-Programming-Meadors/dp/0619159200 > > And no, I don't want to Perl for this stuff. Keep in mind that shell makes a great wrapper for starting other programs and gluing any number of them together, but usually isn't the best choice for anything that needs a lot of calculation or data storage. If a perl program already exists that does a step you need (and it probably does, CPAN has everything...), use it. Don't restrict yourself to the legacy unix utility programs that you'll see used in shell programming examples (sed, tr, cut, etc.) - you can run anything you want for any step you want. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
