Korn Shell Programming by Example

Chapter 13. Pulling It All Together

Every now and then, it all comes together. The sun shines. The wind is at your back. The air is crisp. You feel like you can do anything and do it well. Your strength and confidence comes from having learned from all your past experiences and having synthesized that information into a pool of knowledge from which you can draw when necessary. That summarizes where we are in the book.

You certainly don't know everything (nobody does). Just as life can throw some unexpected curve balls at us, our script writing can draw us into situations for which we are less than fully prepared. You are, however, ready to confront a computing need, and address that need with a fairly sophisticated script. I sincerely hope that ...