On 5/19/07, Mrugesh Karnik mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 18 May 2007 22:45:45 Deboo wrote:
Still nothing compares to the Kanetkar style it seems
Do you people actually read the emails? Go buy O'Reilly's Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition. Available at CB.
Sorry to have overlooked your earlier email. I just read on the unixreview.com about this book:
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* Buy It? *
Much of the discussion (and many of the examples in this book) has its genesis in Rosenblatt's earlier work, *Learning the Korn Shellhttp://www.oreilly.com/catalog/korn2/index.html *. If you liked that book, you'll like this one. If you are an experienced shell programmer and already own *Learning the Korn Shell*, you might want to pass this new book by.
If you own the second edition of *Learning the bash Shell*, I don't think you need the new edition. The third edition advertises that it "covers bash 3.0", but the authors do not elaborate on what this means. Comparing the two editions, the third addition contains an additional six-page chapter on shell scripting and an appendix on "Programmable Completion". The appendix is informative, but hardly worth the price of a new edition.
Otherwise, I recommend this book. After you read and understand this book, you'll be well on your way to becoming a competent bash shell programmer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I got the second edition of this ebook yesterday from a friend. I don't need the 3rd edition now, right?
BTW, Kenneth advised me to contact you about donating some Linux and other books I have. Where do I donate these?
Regards, Deboo