Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:21:16 -0400 From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" <dave@hawk-systems.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: recommended book/guide for /bin/sh shell programming Message-ID: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNIEPKDCAC.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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For multiple reasons I am moving away from doing everything in perl/php for server based tasks. Made sense at the time to do everything in the language we used for the web as well, but am finding I do less web work and more server admin work as time progreses, and there are some significant hits to loading perl or php each time I want to move files and do other such tasks. As such I am finding more and more tasks being performed in plain ol shell scripting, thousgh this is still a hunt and peck type of operation fr the appropriate commands etc... As such, am looking for recommendations for a good guide/book or two for shell programming, but most of the books seem to be specific to bash, tcsh, ksh, etc... Given that there is a seperate bash shell port available, I would assume that /bin/sh != bash. I would prefer to use plain ol /bin/sh since most of the core scripts scattered through the stable installs we have use it. Sugestions? Amazon links? Thanks Dave
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