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Learning the Korn Shell: Unix Programming (Paperback)

by Arnold Robbins (Author), Bill Rosenblatt (Author)
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Lee R. Chikasue, Williamsburg Macromedia User Group, Feb 2003

This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn the Korn shell.


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The Korn Shell is an interactive command and scripting language for accessing Unixr and other computer systems. This work shows you how to use the Korn Shell as a user interface and as a programing environment. It is intended to be a key to gaining control of the Korn Shell and becoming adept at using it as an interactive command and scripting language. Prior programing experience is not required in order to understand the chapters on basic Shell programing. Readers should learn how to write many applications more easily and quickly than with other high-level languages. In addition, they should also learn about Unix utilities and the way the Unix operating system works in general. The authors maintain that you shouldn't have to be an internals expert to use and program the Shell effectively.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not one of O'Reilley's best, 30 April 1998
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This review is from: Learning the Korn Shell (Nutshell Handbook) (Paperback)
Although this book goes through an introduction to shell programming, and covers many features unique to the korn shell, there are large gaps in between. For example, its coverage of simple string and integer comparisons within "if" statements is not presented coherently.

It does not make a good general shell programming reference.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly organized and incomplete, 27 Jun 1998
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For some time, "Learning the Korn Shell" was the only source I had for k-shell programming. That was a bad idea. O'Reilly books are usually first-rate, but I guess they can't knock every pitch out of the park. I cannot recommend this book either as an introductory tutorial or as a reference. The first problem is that topics seem to be jumbled together, so that things are hard to find and to follow. Secondly, many subjects are either not covered at all, or are given the proverbial lick and a prayer. Even worse, the indexing is terrible. I find too many cases in which important things (like dot scripts, for instance) are simply not in the index, if they are covered at all in the text. Fortunately, there are alternatives to this book which I find much more satisfactory. By far the best is "The Korn Shell User and Programming Manual", by Anatole Olczak, an Addison-Wesley publication. It's pricey (about $50), but it's well-organized, complete, and very competently indexed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Learning the Korn Shell, 1 April 2006
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I wanted a book that would enable me to pick up the essentials for the Korn Shell. I had installed Windows Services for Unix which did not have the bash shell I was used to. I bought this book with a little apprehension based on some of the less favourable reviews but proceeded anyway based on the very good experience I have had with O'Reilly books. I wasn't dissapointed. Although I found 'Learning the Bash shell' a slightly better laid out book. 'Learning the Korn shell' gave me what I wanted within half-an-hour of unpacking it. In particular the index allowed me to quickly look up specific topics I needed a handle on, like the vi codes to navigate the history from the command line. It is true that quite a bit of the material (like 'if constructs' for example) are common to both the Bash and the Korn shell but as a single desk reference for the Korn shell I would recommend this. I think the best way of using these books is to use them first off to learn the features and then keep them as a desk reference for those commands that are used now and again and need an aide memoir. I would recommend this book to someone who wanted to learn the Korn shell.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Korn Shell Book
This book is not only an excellent introduction to Korn Shell scripting it remains a useful reference guide even when you have gained a lot of experience. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly excellent for beginners
I can't agree with the other reviews here so far, perhaps they are talking about the 1st edition (I have the new edition). Read more
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