Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

by Chris Johnson

Overview

This book is geared towards any Unix user who doesn't want to spend time creating or testing shell scripts. Instead, Shell Scripting Recipes dissects and explains over 150 much-needed and practical real-world examples, and then shows the reader how and when to appropriately use them.

Because most scripts found in this book are POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface)-compliant, they are supported by many of the major shell variants, including Bash, ksh and sh, among others. File conversion, system administration, and resource monitoring are just a few of the topics covered in this highly practical shell scripting reference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590594711
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/09/2005
Series:	The Expert's Voice in Open Source Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Chris F.A. Johnson was introduced to Unix in 1990 and learned shell scripting because there was no C compiler on the system. His first major project was a menu-driven, user-extensible database system with report generator. Chris uses the shell as his primary, general-purpose programming language, and his projects have included a member database, menuing system, and POP3 mail filtering and retrieval. Chris is the author of Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress, 2005). When not pushing shell scripting to the limit, he designs and codes web sites, teaches chess, and composes cryptic crosswords.

Table of Contents

The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities.- Playing with Files: Viewing, Manipulating, and Editing Text Files.- String Briefs.- What’s in a Word?.- Scripting by Numbers.- Loose Names Sink Scripts: Bringing Sanity to Filenames.- Treading a Righteous PATH.- The Dating Game.- Good Housekeeping: Monitoring and Tidying Up File Systems.- POP Goes the E-Mail.- PostScript: More Than an Afterthought.- Screenplay: The screen—funcs Library.- Backing Up the Drive.- Aging, Archiving, and Deleting Files.- Covering All Your Databases.- Home on the Web.- Taking Care of Business.- Random Acts of Scripting.- A Smorgasbord of Scripts.- Script Development Management.