no habla bash muy bien...

[miah]

I don't think I've read UPT, I think we have a copy in the office though.. I read 'Learning the bash shell' and 'Teach yourself Shell Programming in 24 hours'.  They're both really good.  I think a book that goes along with UPT though is 'The UNIX Programming Environment', though some of the stuff is a little out of date in that book, much of the information is still very usable.

-miah

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:30:30AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, D.E. Chadbourne wrote:
> 
> > hi.  wow, i've been trying to follow the thread about shell scripts, but
> > damn you folks are getting over my head.  i know some basics from just
> > reading a man and screwing around.  does anybody know of a good read
> > (preferably free online) that can help me learn more?  thanks.  eric.
> 
> My favorite book for this is O'Reilly's _Unix Power Tools_. It hits a
> weird balance between being superficial (it gives a chapter to each of
> dozens of different topics, each of which could be & often has been given
> a full book length discussion elsewhere), arcane (it gives lots of
> non-obvious hints), and ultimately practical (best practices, clever
> shortcuts, etc). 
> 
> Other books might be better for details of particular areas, while still
> other books might do a better job of giving a broad overview & theory[1],
> but _UPT_ strikes a good balance. It's an expensive book -- I think the
> current edition might be $60 or $70, which is why I'm still using the
> previous edition for now, even though the new one has good material that
> my version doesn't -- but if all you want to do is get proficient with a
> broad range of Unix tools (as opposed to drowning in minutae, like a lot
> of other O'Reilly books will encourage :), then _UPT_ can replace much of
> the typical Unix bookshelf. 
> 
> I am, to over-emphasize the point, a fan of the book.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Devers
> 
> 
> [1] _Unix Administration Handbook_ and _Linux Administration Handbook_,
>     both by Nemeth, Snyder, & Hein, both do an excellent job with the
>     "broad overview & theory" angle on Unix/Linux. But for pragmatic,
>     day-to-day stuff, I think _UPT_ is more fun & useful to read :) 
> 
> 
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