> I am looking for suggestions on a good book for writing shell > scripts. O'Reilly publishes a book on bash and another on awk & sed.
I like Kernighan and Pike, "The Unix Programming Environment". It's dated (like ten years or so), and doesn't cover Bash extensions, and covers a lot more than shell programming, but all of that is good; its programs are very portable. The thing I like best is the Unix mindset, given here better than anywhere else I've seen. It's not a step-by-step intro to the details of shell programming, but when I was learning Bash and wanted to do something in it, I'd just flip open the book and follow their example. For details, the Bash manpage tells all. I only had to read it ten times or so before understanding what all of it meant ;) Like most people, I'm recommending what I have myself done; not having learned shell programming any other ways, I can't comment on them. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun regisration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" --Adolph Hitler, 1935 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .