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Classic Shell Scripting»rank: 10957by: Arnold Robbins, Nelson H.F. Beebe
: :Shell scripting skills never go out of style. It's the shell that unlocks the real potential of Unix. Shell scripting is essential for Unix users and system administrators-a way to quickly harness and customize the full power of any Unix system. With shell scripts, you can combine the fundamental Unix text and file processing commands to crunch data and automate repetitive tasks. But beneath this simple promise lies a treacherous ocean of variations in Unix commands and standards. 'Classic Shell Scripting' is written to help you reliably navigate these tricky waters. Writing shell scripts requires more than just a knowledge of the shell language, it also requires familiarity with the ... |
Linux in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))»rank: 21730by: Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
: :Over the last few years, Linux has grown both as an operating system and a tool for personal and business use. Simultaneously becoming more user friendly and more powerful as a back-end system, Linux has achieved new plateaus: the newer filesystems have solidified, new commands and tools have appeared and become standard, and the desktop--including new desktop environments--have proved to be viable, stable, and readily accessible to even those who don't consider themselves computer gurus. Whether you're using Linux for personal software projects, for a small office or home office (often termed the SOHO environment), to provide services to a small group of colleagues, or to administer a site responsible ... |
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sed & awk (2nd Edition)»rank: 164446by: Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
: :For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. Most of the things that you can do with these programs can be done interactively with a text editor. However, using sed and awk can save many hours of repetitive work in achieving the same result.To master sed and awk you must thoroughly understand UNIX regular expressions, and understand the syntax of sed and awk commands. This handbook treats regular expressions as a foundation for learning about sed and awk and contains a comprehensive treatment of sed and awk syntax. It emphasizes the kinds of practical problems that sed and awk can help users ... |
Learning the vi and Vim Editors»rank: 30965by: Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb
: :There's nothing that hard-core Unix and Linux users are more fanatical about than their text editor. Editors are the subject of adoration and worship, or of scorn and ridicule, depending upon whether the topic of discussion is your editor or someone else's. vi has been the standard editor for close to 30 years. Popular on Unix and Linux, it has a growing following on Windows systems, too. Most experienced system administrators cite vi as their tool of choice. And since 1986, this book has been the guide for vi. However, Unix systems are not what they were 30 years ago, and neither is this book. While retaining all the valuable ... |
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Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition»rank: 21100by: Arnold Robbins
: :As an open operating system, Unix can be improved on by anyone and everyone: individuals, companies, universities, and more. As a result, the very nature of Unix has been altered over the years by numerous extensions formulated in an assortment of versions. Today, Unix encompasses everything from Sun's Solaris to Apple's Mac OS X and more varieties of Linux than you can easily name. The latest edition of this bestselling reference brings Unix into the 21st century. It's been reworked to keep current with the broader state of Unix in today's world and highlight the strengths of this operating system in all its various flavors. Detailing all Unix commands and ... |
VI Editor Pocket Reference»rank: 50665by: Arnold Robbins
: :The vi Editor Pocket Reference is a companion volume to O'Reilly's newly updated 6th edition of Learning the vi Editor, presenting movement and editing commands, the command-line options, and other elements of the vi editor in an easy-to-use tabular format. |
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sed and awk Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition»rank: 75537by: Arnold Robbins
: :For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. sed, awk, and regular expressions allow programmers and system administrators to automate editing tasks that need to be performed on one or more files, to simplify the task of performing the same edits on multiple files, and to write conversion programs. The 'sed & awk Pocket Reference' is a companion volume to 'sed & awk, Second Edition, Unix in a Nutshell, Third Edition,' and 'Effective awk Programming, Third Edition,' This new edition has expanded coverage of gawk (GNU awk), and includes sections on: An overview of sed and awk's command line syntax Alphabetical summaries ... |
Learning the vi Editor (6th Edition)»rank: 57689by: Arnold Robbins, Linda Lamb
: :A complete guide to text editing with vi, the editor available on nearly every UNIX system. Early chapters cover the basics; later chapters explain more advanced editing tools, such as ex commands and global search and replacement. |
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Learning the Korn Shell (2nd Edition)»rank: 82319by: Arnold Robbins, Bill Rosenblatt
: :The Korn shell is an interactive command and scripting language for accessing Unix® and other computer systems. As a complete and high-level programming language in itself, it's been a favorite since it was developed in the mid 1980s by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Knowing how to use it is an essential skill for serious Unix users. Learning the Korn Shell shows you how to use the Korn shell as a user interface and as a programming environment. Writing applications is often easier and quicker with Korn than with other high-level languages. Because of this, the Korn shell is the most often used shell in commercial environments and ... |
Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)»rank: 85207by: Arnold Robbins
: Review:Anyone who's done programming work knows that you spend half your coding time looking for other people's solutions to the problems you're facing in your project. Particularly when you're dealing with times, dates, standard calculations, and other common problems, you find yourself saying, 'Someone must have solved this before.' And, indeed, someone usually has. Linux Programming by Example is a dense compendium of Linux software solutions--tools, algorithms, and procedures that solve data-processing challenges of the sort that crop up in all sorts of software projects. Though it does not address X11 user-interface programming or network communications much, this book does a great job of communicating recommended practices for command-line interfaces, ... |