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Shell Scripting Recipes

A Problem-Solution Approach

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  • © 2005

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  1. Chris F. A. Johnson
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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.

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities

    Pages 1-40

  3. Playing with Files: Viewing, Manipulating, and Editing Text Files

    Pages 41-60

  4. String Briefs

    Pages 61-79

  5. What’s in a Word?

    Pages 81-104

  6. Scripting by Numbers

    Pages 105-135

  7. Loose Names Sink Scripts: Bringing Sanity to Filenames

    Pages 137-155

  8. Treading a Righteous PATH

    Pages 157-164

  9. The Dating Game

    Pages 165-184

  10. Good Housekeeping: Monitoring and Tidying Up File Systems

    Pages 185-198

  11. POP Goes the E-Mail

    Pages 199-227

  12. PostScript: More Than an Afterthought

    Pages 229-249

  13. Screenplay: The screen—funcs Library

    Pages 251-277

  14. Backing Up the Drive

    Pages 279-292

  15. Aging, Archiving, and Deleting Files

    Pages 293-302

  16. Covering All Your Databases

    Pages 303-321

  17. Home on the Web

    Pages 323-344

  18. Taking Care of Business

    Pages 345-360

  19. Random Acts of Scripting

    Pages 361-379

  20. A Smorgasbord of Scripts

    Pages 381-395
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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.

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