Re: looking for good shell programming books?

[Michael Griffin <mkgriffin adelphia net>]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 07:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Michael Griffin wrote:
> 
> > Try Linux Shell Script Programming by Todd Meadors.
> >
> > It is put out by Thompson Course Technology (http://www.course.com).
> >
> > The first few chapters are a bit basic, but as a textbook for learning,
> > I have used it a lot.
> 
> hmmm ... i briefly browsed over there and, without seeing the actual 
> material, i have to say i'm leery of scripting material whose 
> downloadable student files are a windows .exe file.  but that's just 
> my first impression.
> 
> rday
> 
Granted, but the book's cd itself is UNIX text-based.

It has nice examples and covers many different shell topics.

Michael