Name: Shell Scripting Recipes
ISBN: 978-1-4842-0220-3

Authors:

Chris F. A. Johnson ,
Jayant Varma

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Shell Scripting Recipes is filled with over 150 much-needed and practical recipes that follow a problem-solution format, and help all Unix users regain some of the lost time spent creating and testing shell scripts.
Most scripts in this book are POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface)-compliant, so they are supported by many of the major shell variants, including Bash, ksh, and sh, among others.

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxiii

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Chapter 1: The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 1-41
Chapter 2: Playing with Files: Viewing, Manipulating, and Editing Text Files
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 43-62
Chapter 3: String Briefs
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 63-82
Chapter 4: What’s in a Word?
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 83-106
Chapter 5: Scripting by Numbers
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 107-137
Chapter 6: Loose Names Sink Scripts: Bringing Sanity to Filenames
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 139-157
Chapter 7: Treading a Righteous PATH
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 159-166
Chapter 8: The Dating Game
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 167-186
Chapter 9: Good Housekeeping: Monitoring and Tidying Up File Systems
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 187-200
Chapter 10: Screenplay: The screen–funcs Library
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 201-228
Chapter 11: Aging, Archiving, and Deleting Files
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 229-238
Chapter 12: Covering All Your Databases
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 239-257
Chapter 13: Home on the Web
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 259-280
Chapter 14: Taking Care of Business
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 281-296
Chapter 15: Random Acts of Scripting
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 297-315
Chapter 16: A Smorgasbord of Scripts
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 317-332
Chapter 17: Script Development Management
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 333-341
Appendix A: Internet Scripting Resources
- Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
Pages 343-345
Back Matter

Pages 347-351

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About this book

Filled with over 150 essential, practical recipes that empower Unix users to regain lost time

spent creating and testing shell scripts. The majority of scripts included are POSIX-compliant

and supported by many of the major shell variants, including Bash, ksh, and sh.

Each real-world example recipe follows the same problem-solution structure, meaning

cross-referencing is easy and fast. Recipe topics include file conversion (DOS, UNIX, and

Mac), system administration, resource monitoring, filename management, complex date

calculations, screen control capabilities, and much more.

Completely updated for this second edition and taking all the changes of the past ten

years into account, every recipe in this book is now relevant for a modern audience. Authors

Chris Johnson’s and Jayant Varma’s code is clear, direct, and applicable. Add this excellent

reference to your library today.

About the authors

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.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Shell Scripting Recipes
Book Subtitle: A Problem-Solution Approach
Authors: Chris F. A. Johnson, Jayant Varma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0220-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Chris Johnson and Jayant Varma 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-0221-0Published: 13 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-0220-3Published: 23 October 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 351
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Open Source, Software Engineering