Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
by Chris F.A. Johnson
Apress, 2005
448 PagesPurchase from Amazon.ca, Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
| Ch. | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities | |
| 2 | Playing with Files: Viewing, Manipulating, and Editing Text Files | |
| 3 | String briefs | |
| 4 | What's in a Word? | |
| 5 | Scripting by Numbers | |
| 6 | Loose Names Sink Scripts: Bringing Sanity to Filenames
The Naming of Files is a serious matter,
This isn't just one of your Usenet flames;
You may think at first it doesn't much matter
But I tell you, a file should have a SENSIBLE NAME.
(with apologies to T. S. Eliot)
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| 7 | Treading a Righteous PATH | |
| 8 | The Dating Game (Sample chapter [PDF]) | |
| 9 | Good Housekeeping: Monitoring and Tidying Up File Systems | |
| 10 | POP Goes the E-Mail | |
| 11 | PostScript: More Than an Afterthought
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| 12 | Screen Manipulation: | |
| 13 | Backing Up the Drive | |
| 14 | Aging, archiving and deleting files | |
| 15 | Covering All Your Databases | |
| 16 | Home on the Web | |
| 17 | Taking Care of Business | |
| 18 | Random Acts of Scripting
"The generation of random numbers is too important
to be left to chance."
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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| 19 | A Smorgasbord of Scripts | |
| 20 | Script development management |
