Hi managers,
Thanx a lot, I got 34 replies (repliers at the end of this list ).
My original question was:
" I'm looking for good Shell programming books"
Two guys respond with:" All O'reilly 's are good books"
They are right These are good books.
More specific:
The most recommended book is:
"Unix C Shell Field Guide" by G. Anderson & Paul Anderson,
Prentice Hall(ISBN 0-13-937468-X 025).
The second most recommended book is:
Unix Shell Programming, by Kochan and Wood (ISBN 0-8104-6309-1).
The bronze medallion is for:
Unix Power Tools, from O'Reilly.
Other good books are:
David Korn's book, The Korn Shell 0-13-516972-0.
Learning The Korn Shell Bill Rosenblatt ISBN 1-56592-054-6
The Unix programming Environment, by Kernighan & Pike
Unix in a Nutshell published by O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-001-5).
UNIX Shell programming, third edition. Lowell Jay Arthur & Ted burns
"The UNIX System" by S.R.Bourne
"Unix Desktop Guide to Korn Shell". Written by John Valley,
"sed & awk" by Dale Dougherty, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
'UNIX For Programmers and users' Prentice Hall , ISBN 0-13-061771-7
Haydn Unix Library book "UNIX Shell Programming" ,
O'Reilly "Programming Perl" book by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz.
Programming Perl Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz
UNIX-Shells Helmut Herold Addison Wesley ISBN 3-89319-381-2
Shannon W. Price" <sprice@Eng.Auburn.EDU> writes:
You might try the comp.unix.shell newsgroup FAQ for more info.
And also did Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
"the best way to learn shell programming, is to read
comp.unix.shell for a while, and simply play with the things discussed"
I will do that, but i need the books anyhow. Thanks !
moshel@taux01.nsc.com (Moshe Linzer) Sends me a compleet list of
recommended books. You can get them from "misc.books.technical"
A summary of this list:
** This is a good selection of over 150 "best" books and documentation on
UNIX and related areas like the Internet. The selection is based on
i) recommendations from netnews readers, ii) the US/Canada sales figures,
and iii) a bit of my own preference.
** Subject areas covered:
A. General Unix Texts
a. for beginning / intermediate users
b. for intermediate / advanced users
B. Shells
C. Unix Editors
D. Networking and Communications
E. The Internet
F. System Administration
G. Unix Security
H. Programming
I. TeX
J. X Window System
K. Dictionaries and Glossaries
L. Other Lists
M. Other Books
[[ BTW, from your responses since this list was first posted ...
The best publisher:
O'Reilly & Associates
The most-recommended books:
Unix Network Programming by Richard Stevens
Unix System Administration Handbook by Nemeth, Snyder and Seebass
** I will try to update and post this list regularly. The latest version
is also obtainable by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu (in
/pub/usenet/news.answers/books). If you do not have ftp or netnews access
you can get it by email from mail-server@rftm.mit.edu and the body
of your request should be send usenet/news.answers/books/unix .
A. General Unix Texts
*************************
~ a. (more or less) for beginning / intermediate users -
0: Title: Unix for Dummies
Authors: John Levine and Margaret Levine Young
Publisher: IDG
Edition: 1993
ISBN: 0-878058-58-4
Comment: A fairly informal (funny) and non-technical introduction to Unix ...
End Of Summary of Unix books List.
"Unix for Dummies looks nice to me, Who has it :-).
OK back to your responses,
pamela@jupiter.Legato.COM (Pamela Pledger) Gave me a "Shell programming
course in a nutshell" Thanks Pamela it has some Useful information, but
i need the books anyhow.
My thanks goes to everyone who responds, even if your name is not
in the next list:
beal@cosmos.staff.udg.mx (Lupemaria Beal)
stern@sunrise.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
Joseph P DeCello III <decello@beal.cpp.msu.edu>
Dave Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
Lenny Turetsky <lturetsk@aida.econ.yale.edu>
"Shannon W. Price" <sprice@Eng.Auburn.EDU>
Tom Orban <orban@advtech.uswest.com>
Steve.Hearn@BarwonWater.Vic.Gov.Au
cmpool@dal.mobil.com (Mike Pool)
"BURKH" <burkh@str.daimler-benz.com>
Cheryl.Williams@twcable.com
mfriz@fs-dmos.asictest.sc.ti.com (Mike Frizzell)
Gene Rackow <rackow@mcs.anl.gov>
Tom Holmberg <holmbert@ochampus.mil>
"C.R. Ritson" <C.R.Ritson@newcastle.ac.uk>
Lars.Salomonsson@tsubilbo.eua.ericsson.se (Lars Salomonsson)
sjm@arithusa.cv.com (Stacey Marshall)
paulo@jaguari.dcc.unicamp.br (Paulo Licio de Geus)
mike_wagner@il.us.swissbank.com (Mike Wagner)
thill@mmts.eds.com (tommy hill)
Gustavo Vegas <gustavo@Microchip.COM>
moshel@taux01.nsc.com (Moshe Linzer)
pamela@jupiter.Legato.COM (Pamela Pledger)
lbd@mhcnet.att.com (Leslie_B_DreyerKalra)
mhcnet!lbd (Leslie_B_DreyerKalra)
"Stephen P. Schaefer" <sps@mcnc.org>
Derald.Mcmillan@soltech.com (Derald McMillan)
glenn.w.cantello@hydro.on.ca (Glenn W Cantello)
dtb@otto.bf.rmit.EDU.AU (David Bath)
Dan Stromberg - OAC-DCS <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
esilva@netcom.com (Eduardo E. Silva)
amy.hollander@amp.com (Amy Hollander)
Torsten Metzner <tom@uni-paderborn.de>
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