[Nottingham] Shell programming

[michael at tuxgames.com]

Look for some books by Mike Joy (he used to be my university lecturer so
I know his stuff is good). He has done several books on unix and Linux and
some of them, IIRC, were the kind of thing you are looking for.

 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I want a generic shell programming book for my lab here at work. A bit 
> of sed/awk, anything else useful. Can anybody recommend something? I 
> don't just want the sed/awk book from O'Reilly :)
> 
> On a related note - are there any commands you use that are very useful 
> but might not be well known? I'm sure there must be things I haven't 
> come across that are really handy. I remember when I hadn't heard of tee 
> for instance...
> 
> Cheers and have a good Christmas,
> 
> Roger
> 
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