[wellylug] Help in finding a good technical/Linux related bookstore

[Anthony Walters]

>
> Why 'get into serious shell scripting'? Anything over a hundred lines
> should not IMO be written in shell code. It won't be portable, and it
> will be a pain to maintain. Oh well. I'm just about to hack into an 800
> - 900 line monster!


Basic understanding of sed and awk may be useful (I've not had to bother

> with awk in many years in the business) but in depth knowledge is not
> essential.


Yes probably the right way to go about awk and sed unless there was a
requirement to use it more heavily.

You'd do better (IMO) to concentrate on your favourite programming
> language (be it Perl or one of those other ones), and just picking up
> the shell and awk stuff that you need to understand other people's
> scripts that you need to maintain.


Yes i have been picking up shell scripting for a while now - but my
knowledge is all a bit disjointed. I need something to solidify all the
stuff i know and 'half know' how to do and hence the book to get that
started. The other reason for not concentrating on perl/python/ruby/etc is
because shell scripts are the glue that hold together a unix system and i
wanted to be able to quickly read and understand system scripts and also to
modify and make my own custom ones.
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