Shell Scripting Recipes

Chris F.A. Johnson was introduced to Unix in 1990 and learned shell scripting because there was no C compiler on the system. His first major project was a menu-driven, user-extensible database system with report generator. Chris uses the shell as his primary, general-purpose programming language, and his projects have included a member database, menuing system, and POP3 mail filtering and retrieval. Chris is the author of Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress, 2005). When not pushing shell scripting to the limit, he designs and codes web sites, teaches chess, and composes cryptic crosswords.

1: The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities 2: Playing with Files: Viewing, Manipulating, and Editing Text Files 3: String Briefs 4: What's in a Word? 5: Scripting by Numbers 6: Loose Names Sink Scripts: Bringing Sanity to Filenames 7: Treading a Righteous PATH 8: The Dating Game 9: Good Housekeeping: Monitoring and Tidying Up File Systems 10: Screenplay: The screen-funcs Library 11: Aging, Archiving, and Deleting Files 12: Covering All Your Databases 13: Home on the Web 14:Taking Care of Business 15: Random Acts of Scripting 16: A Smorgasbord of Scripts 17: Script Development Management Appendix A: Internet Scripting Resources