Scripting question, [small programming question

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Paul Howarth wrote:

> To add to this, I can heartily recommend the book "The Unix
> Programming Environment" by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike (see:
> http://cm.bell- labs.com/cm/cs/upe/). It's an excellent introduction
> not only to "sh" scripting but also to the entire philosophy of the
> way things work in Unix (and it all applies equally well to Linux of
> course). It also introduces you to sed, awk and a few other tools.
> It's really really good. Really.

FWIW, o'reilly has a new scripting book, "Classic Shell Scripting,"

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/shellsrptg/

DISCLAIMER:  i was one of the tech reviewers on an early draft.  the
focus of the book is on the POSIX standard, of which i thoroughly
approve.

rday