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Beginning Portable
Shell Scripting
From Novice to Professional
Peter Seebach
Beginning Portable Shell Scripting: From Novice to Professional
Copyright © 2008 by Peter Seebach
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 Contents at a Glance
About the Author
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About the Technical Reviewer
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Acknowledgments
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ChaPter 1
Introduction to Shell Scripting
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ChaPter 2
Patterns and Regular Expressions
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ChaPter 3
Basic Shell Scripting
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ChaPter 4
Core Shell Features Explained
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ChaPter 5
Shells Within Shells
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ChaPter 6
Invocation and Execution
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ChaPter 7
Shell Language Portability
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ChaPter 8
Utility Portability
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ChaPter 9
Bringing It All Together
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ChaPter 10
Shell Script Design
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ChaPter 11
Mixing and Matching
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aPPeNdix a
The Shell Command Language
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aPPeNdix B
The
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Utility
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aPPeNdix C
Regular Expressions
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iNdex
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