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From: howard@COS.COM (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C shell script files
Summary: _The Unix C Shell Field Guide_
Message-ID: <796@cos.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 88 14:18:07 GMT
References: <65200004@convexe>
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <65200004@convexe>, mturner@convexe.UUCP writes:
> I was wondering if anyone knew of any good books that could help me to 
> learn unix c shell script files.


I recently bought _The UNIX C Shell Field Guide_ by Gail & Paul
Anderson (Prentice Hall); $27.95 at B. Dalton.  I am extremely
pleased with it, as it pulled together a number of things I knew
intuitively (i.e., as a developer under SunOS without any formal
UNIX training).

Not all the scripts ran unmodified on our Sun system, but not
much work was needed.  For some reason, perhaps only my own
visual perception, I found the book much more useful when I 
highlighted the "meat" in various paragraphs; I don't usually
find this necessary.  Perhaps this shows the book as more
of a tutorial than a "conversion guide" for experienced programmers,
which may be the authors' goal.
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