Product: 0596009658

I’m teaching a class at my office (I have over 45 years experience with Unix, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, etc.) for technical folks and programmers who are migrating from a Windows environment to a Linux (RHEL6) enviroinment. In previous sessions of a class like this but on other OS’s (Solaris and HP-UX primarily) I had concentrated on the Korn shell (which I still like); but for this class I decided to emphasize Bash instead as it’s the defacto standard on Linux (and has features that some other shells are lacking).

My company asked me to recommend a book for the people taking this course would find useful, so I began looking for a book to use to go along with the sessions on Awk. (My initial plan had been to give them the URLs for on-line materials, and I’m still doing that).

I selected this book to use as the reference (i.e, the one the people taking the class will buy) as after scanning through not just it but several other books it seemed to be the best one to recommend both as the basis for what I was teaching as well as other areas of shell programming which I will summarize but not go into extensively.

IMHO the students shoud find this book to be very useful as a printed reference long after the course is over.
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