Application/Programms for practice using Shell scripts

[z]

I have just started(few weeks) learning the shell scripts and AWK tools from below books
-Learning Korn Shell
-sed & awk by Arnold Robbin


Can someone suggest me some programs or application which i can code and learn.



regards,
~~Z

[Ed Morton]

z <bhatnaga...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just started(few weeks) learning the shell scripts and AWK tools
from below books
> -Learning Korn Shell
> -sed & awk by Arnold Robbin

Never heard of that Korn shell book, but don't use that sed & awk book.
You don't need a book to learn the how to use sed for the things you
should use sed for (i.e. simple substitutions on a single line) and the
book that best teaches you awk is "Effective Awk Programming, Third
Edition By Arnold Robbins" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/awkprog3/).

> Can someone suggest me some programs or application which i can code and
learn.

Google for examples and lurk here and comp.lang.awk.

Ed.

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[Janis Papanagnou]

On 12.10.2012 18:13, Ed Morton wrote:
> z <bhatnaga...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have just started(few weeks) learning the shell scripts and AWK tools
> from below books
>> -Learning Korn Shell
>> -sed & awk by Arnold Robbin
>
> Never heard of that Korn shell book, but don't use that sed & awk book.

It's probably Rosenblatt's "Learning the Korn Shell". I had used it once
in the past because it had the (at that time otherwise undocumented) ksh's
advanced getline feature described. The rest of the book looked also quite
good, so that I'd recommend it. (If the OP means another book, though, I
can't tell.)

> You don't need a book to learn the how to use sed for the things you
> should use sed for (i.e. simple substitutions on a single line) and the
> book that best teaches you awk is "Effective Awk Programming, Third
> Edition By Arnold Robbins" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/awkprog3/).

Seconded.

Janis