Expert shell scripting
"Expert Shell Scripting is a cornucopia of useful scripts and techniques collected during my years as a system administrator. Although these scripts were written from the perspective of a system administrator, you can reuse them for almost any purpose you can think of. All the code in this book...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA
Apress
2009
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| Series: | The expert's voice in open source
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Basic Scripting Techniques
- Ch. 1. Shell Script Debugging
- Ch. 2. Standard Function Library
- Ch. 3. Date and Time Manipulation
- Ch. 4. Comparisons and Tests
- Ch. 5. Accepting Command-Line Options, Switches, and Parameters
- Ch. 6. Testing Variables and Assigning Defaults
- Ch. 7. Indirect Reference Variables
- Ch. 8. Shell Process Tree
- Ch. 9. Data Redirection
- Ch. 10. Piping Input to read
- pt. 2. System Interaction and Advanced Techniques
- Ch. 11. Math from the Shell
- Ch. 12. Cron
- Ch. 13. Self-Linked Scripts
- Ch. 14. Throttling Parallel Processes
- Ch. 15. Command-Line Editing and History
- Ch. 16. Scripting from the Command Line
- Ch. 17. Automating User Input with expect
- Ch. 18. User Input Timeout
- Ch. 19. Instant Keyboard Response
- Ch. 20. Directory Copying
- Ch. 21. A Brief Tour of the X Display Environment
- Ch. 22. X Navigation Window
- Ch. 23. Command-Line E-mail Attachments
- Ch. 24. Text-Processing One-Liners
- Ch. 25. Editing Files in Place
- Ch. 26. Evaluating Variables in a Flat File
- Ch. 27. Read Piped Input
- Ch. 28. Free-Format Output Using cat
- Ch. 29. Automating Interactive Processes
- pt. 3. Useful Scripts
- Ch. 30. Automating E-mail with procmail
- Ch. 31. Process-Management Monitor
- Ch. 32. Managing File Counts
- Ch. 33. Processes Running from inittab
- Ch. 34. Automatic RCS
- Ch. 35. Colorful /proc Reporting
- Ch. 36. Password-Aging Notification
- Ch. 37. A Pseudo-shadow File
- Ch. 38. Linux Gold-System Build
- Ch. 39. System Snapshots
- Ch. 40. Removing Large Files and Log Rolling
- Ch. 41. Core Finder
- Ch. 42. Network Adapter Failover
- App. A. Test Switches
- App. B. Special Parameters
- App. C. Other Shell-Scripting Resources
- Includes bibliographical references and index