This book is intended for administrators of applications, system administrators, DBA, and programmers who work on UNIX or UNIX-Like (Linux, BSD) systems, and wish to learn to write automated programs in order to ease their work.
The reader will learn the most important languages for scripting in the UNIX & UNIX-like systems: Korn Shell 88, Korn Shell 93, BASH, POSIX Shell, SED and AWK.
Through simple and progressive examples, the reader will be taught to: â–ªCreate programs ranging from the most basic to the most complex â–ªWrite programs for starting, stopping and monitoring applications â–ªWrite checking programs before running some destructive commands â–ªReplace repetitive manual tasks by programs created once and for all.
The book is abouth the following languages: -Korn Shell (ksh88 and ksh93), BASH, and POSIX Shell -AWK, NAWK and POSIX AWK -SED