Expert Shell Scripting [Paperback]

System administrators need libraries of solutions that are ingenious but understandable. They don't want to reinvent the wheel, but they don't want to reinvent filesystem management either! Expert Shell Scripting is the ultimate resource for all working Linux, Unix, and OS X system administrators who would like to have short, succinct, and powerful shell implementations of tricky system scripting tasks.

• Automating small to medium system management tasks
• Analyzing system data and editing configuration files
• Scripting Linux, Unix, and OS X applications using bash, ksh, et al.

There are tens of thousands of Linux and Unix system administrators who are pressed for time and need an immediate fix. Expert Shell Scripting offers quick and easy solutions to many common (but challenging) problems that would otherwise take hours to solve.

System administrators need libraries of solutions that are ingenious but understandable. They don’t want to reinvent the wheel, but they don’t want to reinvent filesystem management either! Expert Shell Scripting is the ultimate resource for all working Linux, Unix, and OS X system administrators who would like to have short, succinct, and powerful shell implementations of tricky system scripting tasks.

• Automating small to medium system management tasks
• Analyzing system data and editing configuration files
• Scripting Linux, Unix, and OS X applications using bash, ksh, et al.

A table of contents is not available for this title.Ron Peters spent more than ten years administering Linux and Unix systems while building a very large library of shell scripts. He realized that the world is full of how-to documents, but not many seem to read them, nor can many system admil3*