breck@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck) (04/28/91)
Here is a summary of responses and opinions I received... The Unix Programming Environment by B.W. Kernighan and R. Pike Prentice Hall, Inc., 1984 Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey ...covers more than sh programming. Reported to be excellent. Unix Shell Programming by S.G. Kochan and P.H. Wood Hayden Book Company, 1985 442 pages ISBN: 0-8104-6309-1 cost: $25 ...has a chapter each for the C Shell and Korn Shell. This book may be more suited for a beginner than an experienced Unix programmer. Reported to be very readable. The Unix System by S. R. Bourne Addison-Wesley 1983. ...from the man who wrote sh. The Kornshell Command and Programming Language by Bolsky and Korn Prentice Hall 1989. Unix Applications Programming, Mastering the Shell by Ray Swartz Sams, div. of Macmillan Computer Publishing, 1990 ISBN 0-672-22715-0 Library of Congress # 90-61476 editor's note: My experience with Sams books makes me want to avoid them. Poor writing, typos in bad places, poor consideration of topic. Dis-recommended: "Unix Shell Programming" by Arthur. For more info see: Subject: YABL (Yet Another Book List) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.books.technical Available via anonymous ftp from pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58) in /pub/usenet/comp.unix.questions/YABL_(Yet_Another_Book_List) Available from mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu by sending a message containing "send usenet/comp.unix.questions/YABL_(Yet_Another_Book_List)". Send a message containing "help" to get general information about the mail server. -- Liam Breck breck@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu
pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) (04/29/91)
In article <1991Apr27.174921.27741@risky.ecs.umass.edu> breck@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck) writes:
=Unix Applications Programming, Mastering the Shell
=by Ray Swartz
=Sams, div. of Macmillan Computer Publishing, 1990
=ISBN 0-672-22715-0
=Library of Congress # 90-61476
=
=editor's note: My experience with Sams books makes me want to avoid
=them. Poor writing, typos in bad places, poor consideration of topic.
Have you looked at their recent output? They are now using relatively
knowledgeable technical reviewers (ahem, ahem ;-)) and the writing I've
seen lately has been excellent. Now, if you were talking about TAB
Books, I would not have commented.
Pete
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