Wicked Cool Shell Scripts - 101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix Systems
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.
QA76.76.O63T3895 2004
005.4'32--dc22
2003017496
