Re: Shell Scripting Reference?
Re: Shell Scripting Reference?
- Subject: Re: Shell Scripting Reference?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:40:45 -0700
At 12:27 -0400 9/26/2001, duanemitchell wrote:
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>does
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>anyone know or have a favorite Shell scripting reference that would relate
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>closely to OS X shell?
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What about the built in reference via the "man" command. I understand
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it's big and thorough but haven't looked it over myself. My first
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inclination is to buy a book.
Man pages aren't terribly good teachers...they're excellent references when
you almost know how to do what your trying to do.
The default shell in Mac OS X is tcsh:
[localhost:~] john% echo $SHELL
/bin/tcsh
The obvious book is O'Reilly's "Using csh & tcsh" (I have first edition,
1995...I haven't looked to see whether there's a newer edition). The cover
features an oystercatcher (bird, not grumpy guy in yellow rain gear ;-)).
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA