The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank the following people, who helped make this book possible.

First Edition

First, the people who inspired me:

Jenny Watson, acquisitions editor at Wiley Publishing who originally suggested that I write a shell scripting book.

John C. Dvorak, noted columnist and pundit. In an episode of his video podcast, Cranky Geeks, Mr. Dvorak described the process of writing: “Hell. Write 200 words a day, and in a year, you have a novel.” This advice led me to write a page a day until I had a book.

Dmitri Popov wrote an article in Free Software Magazine titled “Creating a book template with Writer,” which inspired me to use OpenOffice.org Writer (and later, LibreOffice Writer) for composing the text. As it turned out, it worked ...