Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:46:13 -0500 From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false Message-ID: <20061026194613.GC30574@dfwdamian.vail> In-Reply-To: <226ae0c60610261136o56d5d2cam3f11472be7d80601@mail.gmail.com> References: <226ae0c60610250940h43c1bea8o77326728f15ed058@mail.gmail.com> <226ae0c60610261136o56d5d2cam3f11472be7d80601@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:36:06PM -0400, David Robillard wrote: > >I appreciate the help thanks! > > Sure, I'll send the script to you in an individual email instead of as > an attachement to the list. Should anyone on the list want a copy, > just drop me an email. > > >I'd appreciate the script though, definitely, as any resource I have to > >learn all Unix script languages properly will only help in my becoming a > >better Unix admin as well as script more common tasks to help make my life > >a bit easier. > > When I've started to write shell scripts, I read a nice book which > covered sh, csh and ksh with lots of examples. That was the first > edition, but it's now in it's fourth edition and now have coverage of > bash and tcsh plus you get info on sed & awk. > > "UNIX Shells By Example", Ellie Quigley, Prentice Hall PTR; 4th > edition (Sep 24 2004), 1200 pages, ISBN: 013147572 > > On amazon.ca: > http://www.amazon.ca/UNIX-Shells-Example-Ellie-Quigley/dp/013147572X/sr=1-1/qid=1161886975/ref=sr_1_1/701-2925611-9451566?ie=UTF8&s=books > > Otherwise, you can always Google around for "unix shell script" and > such. There are a lot of sites on the topic. I would select one from a > University. > > Have fun! > > David > -- > David Robillard > UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA > CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator > Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 I inherited an older edition of "UNIX Shell by Example" and agree it's a good book. I'd also recommend O'Reilly's "Classic Shell Scripting" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/shellsrptg/). I probably shouldn't encourage this sort of thing, but you can find the entire O'Reilly CD Bookshelf on the web if you want to sample the books before buying. -Damian
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