Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The POSIX shell and command-line utilities
  • Ch. 2. Playing with files : viewing, manipulating, and editing text files
  • Ch. 3. String briefs
  • Ch. 4. What's in a word?
  • Ch. 5. Scripting by numbers
  • Ch. 6. Loose names sink scripts : bringing sanity to filenames
  • Ch. 7. Treading a righteous PATH
  • Ch. 8. The dating game
  • Ch. 9. Good housekeeping : monitoring and tidying up file systems
  • Ch. 10. POP goes the e-mail
  • Ch. 11. PostScript : more than an afterthought
  • Ch. 12. Screenplay : the screen-funcs library
  • Ch. 13. Backing up the drive
  • Ch. 14. Aging, archiving, and deleting files
  • Ch. 15. Covering all your databases
  • Ch. 16. Home on the Web
  • Ch. 17. Taking care of business
  • Ch. 18. Random acts of scripting
  • Ch. 19. A smorgasbord of scripts
  • Ch. 20. Script development management