Series: Bible
Paperback: 816 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (January 20, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 111898384X
ISBN-13: 978-1118983843
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.5 x 9.3 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
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By the time I bought this book, I had already read a lot of online resources about bash scripting, and I had already been using linux for two years. I had even read most of the A-plus certification book on Linux. Despite that, I was constantly struggling to write bash scripts that worked, this is because so much of the free online documentation on bash scripting is confusing and incomplete. Even when consulting co-workers, they too could not explain why so many things I tried to code in a bash script did not work. That's when I decided to buy this book.The "Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible" cleared up a lot of problems that have been plaguing me for a long time now. I wish that I had started to learn bash scripting with this book, it could have saved me a lot of time. I would highly recommend this for anybody who will use linux.Let me list some things this book explained to me that I struggled with for years prior:- When is a subshell made, what are the implications of that, how does variable scoping come into play.- how can you create, manipulate, and pass around arrays in bash- how does the "return" statement behave in functions, how to use that in an if statement- how can you do math in bash- the differences between [ ] and [[ ]]Here are some other things I love about this book:- it has an excellent explanation of how you could parse a command line that follows a complicated pattern like "mycommand --longopt -a -bcf input.txt -- foo bar zop". Before I picked up this book I thought that would be too difficult to do in a bash script.- It explains how to easily create GUI interfaces for your script.- It has one of the best explanations for sed and gawk I have ever seen.
This volume is the "perennial" publication of choice for the programmer at his daily grind. Some folks can make do with just the UNIX "Man" pages. Some folks make do with peeking over other mature programmers shoulders. There are "Visual learners' and "Aural Learners." Now what if the reader is a non-distinct learner, hardware oriented, all fingers and no thumbs? Fear naught. This is precisely the book to maintain one's sanity.Ye have graduated from Computer Assembler, Computer Tester, Computer Technician, Computer Programmer, Computer Administrator, Network Administrator, Computer Analyst, Computer Technologist, Computer Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cybernetic Engineer, but along the way the professional has forgotten most or all that was learned. This book shall bring the reader back prepared for the task at hand.Yes that dreaded "Command Line Interface", remember MS-DOS, Apple-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, UMSDOS, etc. After all these decades itsremains the way to have uninhibited firmware and system access. Nevermind a User must have hardware access, really now. Allow the basic machine language coding get the User into the system, network to get the job done.Does that computer at work and home have the User at its mercy? Buy this book, read it, internalize the contents, the User shall not ever fear coding again. Many successful Users have already re program their electronic calculators, tablets, and other ARM equipped devices to do more than just play games. There are UNIX, DOS, Windows, MacOS-X, and Linux operating systems. They all have one uninhibited access point...the "Command Line". And the future is Linux, because everything runs on Linux now!
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