Shell Scripting by Parker, Steve -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Part I: About the Ingredients

Chapter 1: The History of Unix, GNU, and Linux

Unix GNU Linux Summary

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Choosing an OS Choosing an Editor Setting Up the Environment Summary

Chapter 3: Variables

Using Variables Preset and Standard Variables SECONDS Summary

Chapter 4: Wildcard Expansion

Filename Expansion (Globbing) Regular Expressions and Quoting Summary

Chapter 5: Conditional Execution

If/Then Else elif Test ([) Case Summary

Chapter 6: Flow Control Using Loops

For Loops While Loops Nested Loops Breaking and Continuing Loop Execution While with Case Until Loops Select Loops Summary

Chapter 7: Variables Continued

Using Variables Searching Strings Providing Default Values Indirection Sourcing Variables Summary

Chapter 8: Functions and Libraries

Functions Variable Scope Libraries Getopts Summary

Chapter 9: Arrays

Assigning Arrays Accessing Arrays Associative Arrays Manipulating Arrays Advanced Techniques Summary

Chapter 10: Processes

The ps Command killall The /proc pseudo-filesystem prtstat I/O Redirection Exec Pipelines Background Processing Other Features of /proc and /sys Summary

Chapter 11: Choosing and Using Shells

The Bourne Shell The KornShell The C Shell The Tenex C Shell The Z Shell The Bourne Again Shell The Debian Almquist Shell Dotfiles Command Prompts Aliases History Tab Completion Foreground, Background, and Job Control Summary

Part II: Recipes for Using and Extending System Tools

Chapter 12: File Manipulation

stat cat cat Backwards is tac Redirection dd df mktemp join install grep split tee touch find find -exec Summary

Chapter 13: Text Manipulation

cut echo Fmt Head and Tail od paste pr printf shuf sort tr uniq wc Summary

Chapter 14: Tools for Systems Administration

basename date dirname factor identity, groups, and getent logger md5sum mkfifo Networking nohup seq sleep timeout uname uuencode xargs yes Summary

Part III: Recipes for Systems Administration

Chapter 15: Shell Features

Recipe 15-1: Installing Init Scripts Recipe 15-2: RPM Report Recipe 15-3: Postinstall Scripts

Chapter 16: Systems Administration

Recipe 16-1: init Scripts Recipe 16-2: CGI Scripts Recipe 16-3: Configuration Files Recipe 16-4: Locks

Chapter 17: Presentation

Recipe 17-1: Space Game

Chapter 18: Data Storage and Retrieval

Recipe 18-1: Parsing HTML Recipe 18-2: CSV Formatting

Chapter 19: Numbers

Recipe 19-1: The Fibonacci Sequence Recipe 19-2: PXE Booting

Chapter 20: Processes

Recipe 20-1: Process Control

Chapter 21: Internationalization

Recipe 21-1: Internationalization

Part IV: Reference

Appendix: Further Reading

Shell Tutorials and Documentation Shell Services

Glossary

Introduction

What This Book Covers How This Book Is Structured What You Need to Use This Book Conventions Source Code Errata p2p.wrox.com

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