Portable Shell Programming: An Extensive Collection of Bourne Shell Examples
Language: English
Published by Pearson Education (US), 1995
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Shows how to use the shell to develop shell scripts, using the shell more like a programming language than a command interpreter. This book covers shell syntax, portability on different UNIX systems, using shell scripts to catch or ignore signals, executing commands using the remote shell command, and using the shell's redirection syntaxes.
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- Title
- Portable Shell Programming: An Extensive Collection of Bourne Shell Examples
- Author
- Bruce Blinn
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US)
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0134514947
- ISBN 13
- 9780134514949
Traditionally, books on shell programming present the shell as the user interface to UNIX. This complete guide shows how to use the shell to develop shell scripts, using the shell more like a programming language than a command interpreter. Covers shell syntax, portability on different UNIX systems, using shell scripts to catch or ignore signals, executing commands using the remote shell command, and using the shell's redirection syntaxes. For software development engineers, system administrators, and QA test engineers who work with UNIX computer systems.
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Bruce Blinn has worked with Hewlett-Packard for over thirteen years, and is currently a member of the technical staff working on the HP-UX operating system. In 1990, he was one of the founders of Clarity Software, Inc., producers of a multimedia text processing product named Rapport. It was at Clarity Software that he developed his expertise in shell programming.
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