Effective awk Programming,3rd Edition, focuses entirely onawk, exploring it in the greatest depth of the three awk titles we carry. It's an excellent companion piece to the more broadly focused second edition. This book provides complete coverage of the gawk 3.1 language as well as the most up-to-date coverage of the POSIX standard forawk available anywhere. Author Arnold Robbins clearly distinguishes standard awk features from GNU awk(gawk)-specific...

Shell scripting skills never go out of style. It's the shell that unlocks the real potential of Unix. Shell scripting is essential for Unix users and system administrators---a way to quickly harness and customize the full power of any Unix system. With shell scripts, you can combine the fundamental Unix text and file processing commands to crunch data and automate repetitive tasks. But beneath this simple promise lies a treacherous ocean of variations...

Shell-Skript-Programmierung ist das mächtige Werkzeug zur vollen Entfaltung der Power von Unix. Shell-Skripten sind unerlässlich für Unix-User und Systemadministratoren. Mit ihnen werden Automatisierungsprozesse in Unix elegant und zeitsparend erstellt. Um Shell-Skripten gut schreiben zu können, braucht man mehr als lediglich das Wissen um die Shell-Sprache. Man muss ebenfalls vertraut sein mit den zahlreichen Unix-Programmen. Das vorliegende...

"Designed for developers and system administrators with basic UNIX or Linux skills, this course gives you the fundamentals and then moves you beyond them, teaching you how to write production-level scripts with the POSIX shell."--Resource description page.