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UNIX(r) Shell Programming, 4th Edition
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Author: Lowell Jay Arthur, Ted Burns
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0471168947
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (11 July, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 60,458
Average Customer Rating: 2.45 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Unix Shell Programming
I went through a few different books before this one, including "Learning The Bash Shell" , which I found cryptic and incomplete at best. I have to say that I am at a loss as to why this book has gotten such negative reviews. I had no example problems, and the structure of the book really helps build on previous chapters. The approach is also extremely clear and pedagogic-- all of the concepts are clearly illustrated in examples in a clear context. Its the time-proven "if you want to do this... type this in" approach extremely conducive to make readers want to explore or on their own. Given the enormous volume of Unix books that fails to do so, I think this books deserves a little more credit.
I would say this is a good introduction to Unix shell programming. I would also get E.Q. Shells by Example.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Terrible Examples
Clearly, the authors have not verified the examples they provided in the book. When I ran the example scripts, frequently I would encounter mistakes here and there. It is rather annoying to have such a stupid problem when you try to understand the presented concepts or convention.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Was the third edition better?
I haven't seen the 4th edition, but I do have the third edition, and found it extremely useful when I was learning how to write shell scripts. I spent a lot of time looking for books on shell programming, and settled on this one. It provides an introduction to shell and unix for novices, and has lots of examples as it develops into more advanced techniques. Overall, I found it was quite clear, easy to read and even useful as a reference when I needed to figure out how to do something.
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