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.
Author: Randal K. Michael
Publisher: Wiley
Customer Reviews
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This book is awesome!
I have been a Unix Systems Administrator for ten years but am weak in creating my own Unix shell scripts. I currently administer hundreds of enterprise class Unix servers with AIX, Solaris and RHEL for a major corporation. I bought this book to help me understand scripting more and to help me learn how to write my own scripts instead of copying other peoples scripts. After reading this book, I now can create my own scripts, from scratch and completely understand other peoples scripts. This book explains the syntax of every scripting technique, character...etc. The examples in this book are great and provide many real world techniques to help any System Administrator do their job more efficiently and ultimately faster. Thank You Mr. Randal Michael! I would highly recommend this book to the new Unix System Administrator all the way up to the seasoned expert!
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Excellent reference book for shell scripting
This is an excellent book for unix shell scripting. Pretty much covers everything from A-Z.
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WOW...You will love this book!
This book is great! I Recently landed a job as a Systems Administrator (Solaris), and I needed to know how to script. With little scripting experience (and me not wanting to loose the job of my dreams); I picked this book up. All I can say is WOW. What a GREAT book. It describes step by step what to do, how it's done and why it's done. Although it's exclusively KSH, it does have the same script written in different formats so that it works with Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and other Unicies.
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<br />This book assumes that you know SOME basic scripting skills. Beginners would have to learn some basic scripting and (more importantly) understand the concept besides the actual command(s). I recommend this book for, nonetheless, to everyone who wants/needs to script. Happy scripting!
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