Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: Bash, Bourne, and Korn Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators, and UNIX Gurus, Edition 2

Randal K. Michael

Sep 2011 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

UNIX expert Randal K. Michael guides you through every detail of writing shell scripts to automate specific tasks. Each chapter begins with a typical, everyday UNIX challenge, then shows you how to take basic syntax and turn it into a shell scripting solution. Covering Bash, Bourne, and Korn shell scripting, this updated edition provides complete shell scripts plus detailed descriptions of each part. UNIX programmers and system administrators can tailor these to build tools that monitor for specific system events and situations, building solid UNIX shell scripting skills to solve real-world system administration problems.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent book, I'm enjoying reading it. But the main problem is that the white field around the text is huge making the page much smaller than it could be. As a result, it's not an easy read on a tablet, even on a 10.1" one that I'm using. I have to enlarge every page to make it readable. Plus the scanned text is not black, it's rather grey and it doesn't help as well. In general, the book is really great and I'm sure many people will find many interesting things in it. 4 stars - just because for the scan quality. I could give 3, but didn't want to decrease the real importance of this particular book, which is great!

About the author

Randal K. Michael is a UNIX Systems Administrator working as a contract consultant. He teaches UNIX shell scripting in corporate settings, where he writes shell scripts to address a variety of problems and tasks ranging from monitoring systems to replicating large databases. He has more than 30 years of experience in the industry and 15 years of experience as a UNIX Systems Administrator, working on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OpenBSD, and Solaris.