For the newbies (book question)
Tom Buskey
tom at buskey.name
Wed Mar 5 15:01:55 EST 2003
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:27, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> Allow me to also add:
>
> UNIX Shell Programming (Kochan and Wood, Hayden Books)
> 10ish years old, but still worthwhile if you're writing sh or csh
> covers the shells and some of the more commonly-used tools
> in shell scripting. But, no gnu versions or coverage of bash/tcsh.
The best shell programming book I've seen. I have the 1st edition. It
does have an appendix on csh stuff. It also predates bash and even
ksh93. Leaving out csh for shell programming is a good thing IMHO
unless you're debugging/converting csh scripts.
Portable Shell Programming is also excellent. The O'Reilly KSH book
isn't anything special but the KSH debugger is worth getting. I haven't
tried the Bash debugger yet.
>
> Programming Perl (Wall, Christiansen, & Schwartz, O'Reilly)
> Excellent combination of tutorial and reference. I don't code
> in perl as much as I used to, but when I do, this book gets cracked
> open.
>
I've found the Perl CD bookshelf to be excellent when coding. The
search engine/web server runs on java so it's portable. It's excellent
for searching for specific topics (configuration files...). I wish I
could run all the O'Reilly CD bookshelves together. You can run several
at once by hacking the scripts, but you'll be searching/browsing them
seperately.
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