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Expert Shell Scripting

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Ron Peters
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  • Solutions for urgent Unix/Linux management problems by a scripting guru

  • Cuts across Linux/Unix flavors, common shells and programming approaches

  • Avoids How-To, cuts to the chase

  • A treasure trove of expandable shell scripts

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  3. System Interaction and Advanced Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Math from the Shell

      Pages 75-79

    3. cron

      Pages 81-85

    4. Self-Linked Scripts

      Pages 87-89

    5. Throttling Parallel Processes

      Pages 91-98

    6. Command-Line Editing and History

      Pages 99-101

    7. Scripting from the Command Line

      Pages 103-105

    8. Automating User Input with expect

      Pages 107-114
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About this book

System administrators need libraries of solutions that are ingenious but understandable. They don't want to reinvent the wheel, but they don't want to reinvent filesystem management either! Expert Shell Scripting is the ultimate resource for all working Linux, Unix, and OS X system administrators who would like to have short, succinct, and powerful shell implementations of tricky system scripting tasks.

  • Automating small to medium system management tasks
  • Analyzing system data and editing configuration files
  • Scripting Linux, Unix, and OS X applications using bash, ksh, et al.

About the author

Ron Peters spent more than ten years administering Linux and Unix systems while building a very large library of shell scripts. He realized that the world is full of how-to documents, but not many seem to read them, nor can many system administrators lay claim to being shell scripting experts. He apologizes that it took him so long to make his efforts known to the world. He is married with two children and very happy that he found the time to write this book.

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