Summary: Looking for a good text on sh programming

[Liam Breck]

Here is a summary of responses and opinions I received...

The Unix Programming Environment
by B.W. Kernighan and R. Pike
Prentice Hall, Inc., 1984
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

...covers more than sh programming.  Reported to be excellent.


Unix Shell Programming
by S.G. Kochan and P.H. Wood
Hayden Book Company, 1985
442 pages
ISBN: 0-8104-6309-1
cost: $25

...has a chapter each for the C Shell and Korn Shell.  This book may
be more suited for a beginner than an experienced Unix programmer.
Reported to be very readable.


The Unix System
by S. R. Bourne
Addison-Wesley 1983.

...from the man who wrote sh.


The Kornshell Command and Programming Language
by Bolsky and Korn
Prentice Hall 1989.


Unix Applications Programming, Mastering the Shell
by Ray Swartz
Sams, div. of Macmillan Computer Publishing, 1990
ISBN 0-672-22715-0
Library of Congress # 90-61476

editor's note: My experience with Sams books makes me want to avoid
them.  Poor writing, typos in bad places, poor consideration of topic.


Dis-recommended: "Unix Shell Programming" by Arthur.


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Liam Breck     breck at umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu