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Summary: don't need consider others
Review: go to buy it if you ever want to learn kornshell, and learn it effectively with pleasure !
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Summary: Great resource to immediately start shell programming!
Review: Having worked on many different systems in the past, I found Mr. Rosenberg's book to be an excellent resource. The example format was exactly what I needed to start shell programming almost immediately. I especially liked the bad-better-best programming examples. This is one of the two books I keep around at all times.
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Summary: Excellent no nonsense attitude
Review: I found this book to be refreshing from all the boring programming texts I have read. Rosenberg has interjected humor to help a usually boring subject but has not sacrificed content. Tons of real life examples.
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Summary: An OK book in a very poorly covered field
Review: 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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Summary: An OK book in a very poorly covered field
Review: 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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Summary: Excellent classroom textbook!!!!
Review: I have worked in IT industry for 18 years and have been teaching last 2 years through a volunteering organization. The students' response were excellent, excellent, excellent!!! Using this book five years ago, I have successfully developed a Korn Shell script that efficiently managed hundreds of UNIX servers for a major airline.
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Summary: Excellent classroom textbook!!!!
Review: I have worked in IT industry for 18 years and have been teaching last 2 years through a volunteering organization. The students' response were excellent, excellent, excellent!!! Using this book five years ago, I have successfully developed a Korn Shell script that efficiently managed hundreds of UNIX servers for a major airline.
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Summary: excellent for beginners
Review: i highly recommend this book to anyone who is just beginning to learn scripting and isn't sure where to start. an excellent first resource - never overwhelms the novice with inappropriate jargon, yet contains enough information to also benefit those with some technical background.
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Summary: Amazon Customers are Smart IT People
Review: I was looking for a book on introductory Korn shell programming and I came to Amazon to find one. I have several O'Reilly books and I naturally went to find a book from them but when I read the reviews I was disappointed. The reviewers said the O'Reilly book was poorly written etc and several said they were expecting a book like Barry Rosenberg's. I naturally went to find Barry's book and all the reviewers loved his book. I said 'ok what do I know' and I followed their advice and bought the book. I took it to work and showed it one of our senior Unix admins and he flipped it through it and was amazed. He was in the middle of writing some monitoring programs and he said the book covered some material on number substitution he was not able to find in any of the books on Korn Shell programming that he had. He was very impressed with the book and yep you guessed it he borrowed the book. Since he has taught me a lot of what I know about Unix I couldn't say no. So now when I need a book on a technical subject I am interested in I read the reviews and order it. The advice alone is worth the shipping. I am tired of buying books that gloss over the subject and give newbies nothing to build on except a few buzz words. This book is not one of those.
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Summary: Must have for Korn Shell Users
Review: I would reccommend this book to anyone wanting to understand and learn the korn shell. The author simplfies things with examples that make sense.
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