Introduction

This book is about shell programming or to be more precise shell and Bourne shell programming.

With LINUX now firmly taking its rightful place in the market as a viable and robust operating system, shell programming has become even more popular. No-one can say with any confidence how many LINUX users there are out there because LINUX is free, though there is a growing number of third parties selling their own LINUX variants. UNIX is still as popular as ever and growing despite a forecasted demise by IT consultants a few years ago.

If you want to learn shell programming, then this is the book for you; even if you are an intermediate shell user you will find the book a good learning and reference tool as there are some handy administrative ...

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