Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

by Chris Johnson, Jayant Varma

Overview

Filled with over 150 essential, practical recipes that empower Unix users to regain lost timespent creating and testing shell scripts. The majority of scripts included are POSIX-compliantand supported by many of the major shell variants, including Bash, ksh, and sh.Each real-world example recipe follows the same problem-solution structure, meaningcross-referencing is easy and fast. Recipe topics include file conversion (DOS, UNIX, andMac), system administration, resource monitoring, filename management, complex datecalculations, screen control capabilities, and much more.
Completely updated for this second edition and taking all the changes of the past tenyears into account, every recipe in this book is now relevant for a modern audience. AuthorsChris Johnson’s and Jayant Varma’s code is clear, direct, and applicable. Add this excellentreference to your library today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484202203
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/23/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	351
File size:	873 KB

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.

Table of Contents

1: The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities

2: Playing with Files: Viewing, Manipulating, and Editing Text Files

3: String Briefs

4: What's in a Word?

5: Scripting by Numbers

6: Loose Names Sink Scripts: Bringing Sanity to Filenames

7: Treading a Righteous PATH

8: The Dating Game

9: Good Housekeeping: Monitoring and Tidying Up File Systems

10: Screenplay: The screen-funcs Library

11: Aging, Archiving, and Deleting Files

12: Covering All Your Databases

13: Home on the Web

14:Taking Care of Business

15: Random Acts of Scripting

16: A Smorgasbord of Scripts

17: Script Development Management

Appendix A: Internet Scripting Resources