Is there a similar book on shell programming like Y Kanetkar's Unix Shell Programming, but one that is current. Kanetkar's book is quite old and no new editions. I need a book which has lots of exercises like Kanetkar's and is easy too like the one.
Regards, Deboo
On 5/16/07, knowledge less knowledgeless@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a similar book on shell programming like Y Kanetkar's Unix Shell Programming, but one that is current. Kanetkar's book is quite old and no new editions. I need a book which has lots of exercises like Kanetkar's and is easy too like the one.
Check out the , Advanced Bash−Scripting Guide. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
I found it really good. Has got tons of code snippet's too.
Thanks to all for the nice replies.
Which one of these is easy on language for us Indians? Kanetkar's book is easy on English but just outdated.
I have already bought the LinuxCBT Scripting Edition and watched the Bash Scripting videos twice. Can write small scripts and am already writing. Now where do I go from here?
ABS guide though good and vast and has lots of scripts, seemed to be too much info when I glanced over it.
Please advise keeping the above things in mind.
Regards, Deboo
On 5/16/07, knowledge less knowledgeless@gmail.com wrote:
ABS guide though good and vast and has lots of scripts, seemed to be too much info when I glanced over it.
What about Bash Guide for Beginners, then? tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/Bash-Beginners-Guide.pdf
Regards, Mohan S N
On 5/18/07, Mohan Nayaka mohansn@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/16/07, knowledge less knowledgeless@gmail.com wrote:
ABS guide though good and vast and has lots of scripts, seemed to be too much info when I glanced over it.
What about Bash Guide for Beginners, then? tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/Bash-Beginners-Guide.pdf
Seems to be good. I'll read it and reply in a few days' time.
Thanks for the nice book, I didn't even know it existed, only knew about abs guide.
I got the exercises to try from ABS while I'll try this beginners' guide for learning.
Still nothing compares to the Kanetkar style it seems :-)
Regards, Deboo
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.
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
On Saturday 19 May 2007 09:32:08 Deboo wrote:
BTW, Kenneth advised me to contact you about donating some Linux and other books I have. Where do I donate these?
Yeah, I'll let you know offlist. Please wait for a couple of days.
On 5/16/07, knowledge less knowledgeless@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a similar book on shell programming like Y Kanetkar's Unix Shell Programming, but one that is current. Kanetkar's book is quite old and no new editions. I need a book which has lots of exercises like Kanetkar's and is easy too like the one.
Check out the advanced bash scripting guide available over net. Google for it.
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knowledge less wrote:
Is there a similar book on shell programming like Y Kanetkar's Unix Shell Programming, but one that is current. Kanetkar's book is quite old and no new editions. I need a book which has lots of exercises like Kanetkar's and is easy too like the one.
First you need to decide what shell are you comfortable with, options being ksh, bash, csh, zsh and others. ksh is for very serious scripting and is possibly the most extensive, csh is complicated and you need to be aware of 'C' programming/syntax (i could be wrong though). bash is the easiest (being the default on most distros). zsh though not as popular, is like using ksh features with the ease of bash.
See these for bash anyways: 'Advanced Bash Scripting Guide' is always current: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
These guys also do a good job: http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/linux/docs/uniqlinuxfeatures/lsst/
Additionally, you need to know tools like sed, awk, grep, tr, cut to start off with.
Hi,
--- knowledge less knowledgeless@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a similar book on shell programming like Y Kanetkar's Unix Shell Programming
I'd recommend:
Sumitabha Das. 2006. UNIX Concepts and Applications (4th ed.). Tata McGraw-Hill.
SK
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On Wednesday 16 May 2007 05:16:06 knowledge less wrote:
Is there a similar book on shell programming like Y Kanetkar's Unix Shell Programming, but one that is current. Kanetkar's book is quite old and no new editions. I need a book which has lots of exercises like Kanetkar's and is easy too like the one.
O'Reilly's Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition. Available at CB.
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