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Classic Shell Scripting
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Classic Shell Scripting

by Arnold Robbins, Nelson H. F. Beebe
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
15h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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This book is full of examples of shell commands and programs that are designed to be useful in your everyday life as a user or programmer, not just to illustrate the feature being explained. We especially encourage you to modify and enhance them yourself.

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