UNIX Shell Scripting: The Tutorial

This book is intended for administrators of applications, system administrators, DBA, and programmers who work on a UNIX or UNIX-Like (Linux, BSD) systems, and want to learn how to write automated programs to ease their work.

In this book, you will learn the most important languages for scripting in the UNIX systems: Korn Shell 88, Korn Shell 93, BASH, POSIX Shell, SED and AWK.

With simple and progressive examples, you will very quickly learn how to write handy programs on UNIX and Linux systems, which will allow you to:
â–ª Create programs ranging from the most basic to the most complex
â–ª Write programs for starting, stopping and monitoring applications
â–ª Write checking programs before running some destructive commands
â–ª Replace repetitive manual tasks by programs created once and for all.

This book will teach you the following languages:
- Korn Shell (ksh88 and ksh93), BASH, and POSIX Shell
- AWK, NAWK and POSIX AWK
- SED