Learning the bash Shell, Second Edition

By Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt

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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The fish featured on the cover of Learning the bash Shell is a silver bass, one of the 400-500 species of sea bass. The silver bass, also known as the white perch, is found in freshwater bays and river mouths along the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to South Carolina, and is most abundant in the Chesapeake region. Silver bass live in large schools and feed on small fishes and crustaceans. Although many bass never stray far from one place their whole lives, silver bass swim upstream to spawn, often becoming landlocked in the process. Like most bass, the silver bass is attracted to bright, shiny objects, and they can be drawn quite close to swimmers and divers in this way. UNIX and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks(R) help you tame them. ... Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font. The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman and Jennifer Niederst and modified by Nancy Priest. It was implemented in gtroff by Lenny Muellner. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 4.0 by Chris Reilley. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

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