books about shell

[Victor_5]

I am looking for a book about shell programing, with some details examples, for a beginner, any recommend?

Please tell me the book name, author, and publisher when you reply, thanks.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar · Accepted solution]

Hi,

'Learning the korn shell' and 'sed & awk' (2nd edition) by o'reilly to begin with.
also Programming perl by o'reilly would be a good choise.

Goodluck,
-USA..

[Roger Baptiste]

Hi,

This is a good one.
***
Unix Shell Programming (Hayden Books Unix System Library)
by Stephen G. Kochan, Patrick H. Wood (Contributor)
***

You can look up the list of shell books at amazon by searching on Shell.

HTH
raj

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Book Name: Learning the Korn Shell
Author: Bill RosanBlatt
Publication: Oreilly
Price: $34.95
Pages: 358

:-0

-Sri

[S.K. Chan]

The one that I personally like ..

Title: The Korn Shell (User & Programming Manual)
Author : Anatole Olczak
Publisher : Addison Wesley

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

It depends on which shell you want to learn to program in. I would recommend the Oreilly books,
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/korn/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash2/

and some free online resources:

http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/ksh.html
(you could do a google search for "shell programming tutorial" for more)

...and the sysadmin bookshelf offering of:
http://www.usenix.org/sage/sysadmins/books/programming.html

[Craig Rants]

I've used Shells By Example.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/013066538X/qid=1007661235/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_6_1/102-9506767-9660137

GL,
C

[Rita C Workman]

Well, the one I have used more than what I paid $$ for off the shelf....was the class manual I got when I went to Posix Shell Programming class. And the script handouts that were shared....was a goldmine!

Just something to consider, the cost of the class is money well spent !
Rita

[Jon Mattatall]

I liked

Portable Shell Programming: An Extensive Collection of Bourne Shell Examples
by Bruce Blinn
288 pages 1 edition (October 19, 1995)
Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN: 0134514947

Any of the O'Reilly books is a good choice, as well.

Jon

[Anthony deRito]

Don't forget "man sh-posix". It is a good reference as well. I read the books listed above and always check it out against the man page for further insight. There's a lot in there that the books don't cover.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Shawn:

One I liked:

"UNIX Shell Programming" by Lowell Jay Arthur & Ted Burns, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

The book is divided into sections for the novice, the intermediate user and the experienced.

Another useful guide for beginners is the HP "Shells User's Guide" which is free, here:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90046/B2355-90046.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Victor_5]

Thanks a lot, all!

Shawn

[John Bolene]

Not much I can add to this except for an html ksh man page.

Enjoy.

[David Peacock]

Don't flame me, but, I don't think the O'Reilly books are good for beginners. O'Reilly is kind of dry and while many people consider the definitive books, they don't take into mind how people learn new things.

I recommend, UNIX Made Easy by John Muster.
The title makes it sound light weight, but, it is not.

The book is methodical and is self-paced.
It covers all the important shell command
with excellent examples.

This book is my choice because Muster knows
UNIX and he is interested in how students learn. All the lessons are well thought out
and present material at a reasonable rate.

If you live in San Francisco Bay Area, you can
also take Muster's class at UC Berkely Extension.

[Mark Greene_1]

Hit ebay and half.com and do a search on (unix, ksh, shell) and you will get lots of hits. If you don't mind used books, it's nice not having to pay full retail. You can also look on amazon.com, and if there are any used ones available there, the search will return that as well.

I've been using "Unix Shell Programming" by Kochan and Wook, but am going to look for something more advanced soon.

--
mark

[Peter_17]

I've gone through two copies of "UNIX SHELLS by Example" by Ellie Quigley which covers C, Bourne, and Korn shells plus Awk, Sed, and Grep. An outstanding resource in my opinion.

Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-021222-9

HAGO,

Pete

[Victor_5]

Thanks all!

Shawn