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| Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix Systems | |
| by Dave Taylor | ISBN:1593270127 |
| No Starch Press © 2004 | |
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This cookbook of useful, customizable, and fun scripts gives you the tools to solve common Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX problems and personalize your computing environment. |
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Wicked Cool Shell Scripts”101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix Systems | ||
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Introduction | ||
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Chapter 1 | - | The Missing Code Library |
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Chapter 2 | - | Improving on User Commands |
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Chapter 3 | - | Creating Utilities |
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Chapter 4 | - | Tweaking Unix |
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Chapter 5 | - | System Administration: Managing Users |
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Chapter 6 | - | System Administration: System Maintenance |
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Chapter 7 | - | Web and Internet Users |
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Chapter 8 | - | Webmaster Hacks |
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Chapter 9 | - | Web and Internet Administration |
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Chapter 10 | - | Internet Server Administration |
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Chapter 11 | - | Mac OS X Scripts |
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Chapter 12 | - | Shell Script Fun and Games |
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Afterword | ||
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Index | ||
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List of Figures | ||
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List of Tables | ||
Back Cover
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The UNIX shell is the main scripting environment of every Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX system, whether a rescued laptop or a million-dollar mainframe. This cookbook of useful, customizable, and fun scripts gives you the tools to solve common Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX problems and personalize your computing environment. Among the more than 100 scripts included are an interactive calculator, a spell checker, a disk backup utility, a weather tracker, and a web logfile analysis tool. The book also teaches you how to write your own sophisticated shell scripts by explaining the syntax and techniques used to build each example scripts. Examples are written in Bourne Shell (sh) syntax. About the Author
Dave Taylor has a Masters degree in Education, an MBA, and has written a
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Wicked Cool Shell Scripts ”101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix Systems
by Dave Taylor
San Francisco
Copyright 2004 by Dave Taylor.
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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Taylor, Dave.
Wicked cool shell scripts / Dave Taylor.
p. cm.
1. UNIX (Computer file) 2. UNIX Shells. I. Title.
QA76.76.O63T3895 2004
005.4'32--dc22
2003017496
