Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X (Developer's Library)

Good read

Exceelent

Lots of really great, well-explained content. It was sometimes dense and tended toward the theoretical side, though. I would have liked to see more working examples.

The organization of the material is all over the place. Not a lot of examples and hard to learn advanced shell scripts with basic material; just because you show a bunch of commands/prompts/options doesn't mean a new/intermediate user will understand how it comes together. On top of that some examples of commands/prompts/options are shown using the command line and not writing a basic script which would make the reader understand it more.

I have been writing shell scripts for 20+ years, I found ;ittle new in this book. YMMVv

Excelente libro para aprender el Shell basados en Linux

Professionale, ben scritto e sufficientemente approfondito negli aspetti che tratta. Ogni capitolo va prima letto senza soffermarsi particolarmente, per poi tornarci sopra in approfondimento.

Got that book just a few days ago but couldn't stop reading. Well written and pretty easy to follow even for non-native English speakers. All concepts are well explained and example codes are easy to grasp. Step by step the reader is guided from the simple to more sophisticated application of shell commands and little programs. This book was bought as a refresher for myself already working in IT for 20+ years. I have built-up a nice parallel cluster out of 15 Raspberry Pi B3+ computers - fully maintained via console from my iMac. So I needed a good book on shell programming to automate and get better to handle a lot of tasks in the day-to-day operation of my new little "Raspi Beast" running on Raspbian Linux. And guess what? This book is the one that helped me getting a lot better on doing some nice "console magic". Just a great book - love it and recommend it.

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