Shell script book for the newbie

I have written a book of shell script specially for the newbie who want to learn shell script. The book starts from a very basic idea of shell script programming. Each sections are well demonstrated by examples in order to make clear idea about shell script programming. The book is written in such a way so that you can work with unix and practice shell script even you don't have idea about unix operation systems.

Below is some of the topics that is discussed in the book. All topics are discussed with examples.


- Introduction -What is kernel, shell, shell script.
- Basic Steps to write a shell script
- Variables in shell script
- Output text with echo command
- Arithmetic operation and expression in shell script with expr
- Basic shell programming commands quote, exit and read
- Wildcard characters in linux
- Assignment and comparison variable in shell script
- Command writing, command line arguments in shell script
- Input-Output rediection on linux
- Pipe with example in linux


- If construct in shell script
- Checking condition in shell scipt by test or [expr]
- If else construct in shell script
- For and while loop in shell script
- Case statement in shell script


- What is /dev/null on linux
- Conditional execution && and || in shell script
- Functions in shell script
- Trap command on linux shell script
- The shift command and uses of it in shell script
- getopts command in linux shell script


- Retrieve column from file using cut utility in linux
- Merge lines using paste utility on linux
- Join utility in linux
- Translate or replace characters using tr utility
- Data manipulation using awk utility in linux
- Edit file on linux using sed utility
- Remove duplicate successive line using uniq utility
- Find pattern from a file using grep, egrep or fgrep utility

You can collect this shell script book for $15.

And to collect the book please contact to my email address a_arju@yahoo.co.uk
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