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Title: KornShell Programming Tutorial (Hewlett-Packard Press Series) by Barry Rosenberg ISBN: 0-201-56324-X Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book with lots of small examples
Comment: This is one of the best books in the market for KORN SHELL Programming. The author explains each and every topic with one small example which makes it very easy to understand. I read this book within 1 week and was programming in KORN Shell. Any one who really wants to learn KORN shell programming should buy this book without hesitating. The author has done a really good job.
Rating: 5
Summary: BEST BOOK ON KORN SHELL
Comment: This is the best book I have even read on Korn Shell Programming. The book starts with the very basic and explains each and every topic with a small exmaple. It has lots of examples which you can use for future reference. After reading this book I can really write Korn Shell Scripts with no difficulty. Do not waste time in buying any other books. This is a very good book for begineers and for intermidiate Programmers. WORTH THE PRICE.
Rating: 3
Summary: An OK book in a very poorly covered field
Comment: I generally agree with the reviewer who expressed amazement at the almost universal acclaim for this book. It is a *workable* treatment of KornShell 88 in a field of also-rans. Given that few if any books are better, I give it three stars because with little else available, you *can* use this book to learn and deal with KornShell 88.
Is it a great book, as so many reviewers claim? By no means. It has a fair organization into functional groupings of KornShell features, but lacks fully expository examples, lacks explanation of some key language features, and no doubt lacks some of the details of the language, as the language appears to be fully documented *nowhere* on this planet. If you scour the "tips" websites you will find crucial things that are absent from this book.
Yes, I use it. Yes, it is dog-eared. But it is one of those books that is maddening in its ability to hide factoids one *knows* one has seen somewhere in the book at some time in the past. It is precisely in those cases that the index falls down, yet that is also precisely why an index should be exhaustive and not spotty.
The examples are typically weak in that they don't always fully showcase the language features they purport to illustrate, instead showing simple cases that don't answer the great pressing questions of how the more complex features are used. A book of this type can succeed on examples alone, but this one doesn't.
For some reason that isn't clear to me, both KornShell and AIX are very poorly documented in the private press, as if few people used them. It's another of the many "What's wrong with this picture?" situations that afflict the unix world.
I also found the folksy style to be a bit nauseating.
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Title: Learning the Korn Shell (2nd Edition) by Bill Rosenblatt, Arnold Robbins ISBN: 0596001959 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting by Randal K. Michael ISBN: 0471218219 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 31 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: sed & awk (2nd Edition) by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins ISBN: 1565922255 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The New KornShell Command And Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Morris I. Bolsky, David G. Korn ISBN: 0131827006 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 27 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $66.00 |
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Title: Hands-On KornShell 93 Programming by Barry Rosenberg ISBN: 020131018X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 13 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $47.95 |
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