Korn Shell / ksh: Essential Programs for Your Survival at Work: Book 1 in the Rosetta Stone Series for Computer Programmers and Script-Writers

Many folks might complain about the "readability" of this book, but that mindset basically misses the approach taken with this book. It is not a read from start to end type of book. We learn by doing and this book is entirely about "doing" - the details are explained as your read and run the scripts themselves. If you actually need to acommplish real-world tasks in the Korn shell, this book becomes unrivaled! Kind Regards, Randall62

This is a great book of Korn Shell examples and techniques. However, to understand it, one would first have to have read a good book on Korn Shell syntax and programming. So, this is a second-book for new Korn Shell programmers, not a first book. This is a book that will take you from new/aspiring Korn Shell programmer to a polished/professional Korn Shell programmer. The only reason it does not get five (5) stars is because of no index.

This is just what I needed! I found the information to be very helpful and useful. This is a must for new beginners like me.

GREAT examples; (TONS of them). Practical, real-world examples. I use both the ksh/Korn shell and the BASH shell at work. People who have no experience with UNIX-LINUX environments should study a book for beginners before considering this one. NOTE: There is no CD-ROM available for this book, nor is there a web-site that contains all of the examples, but this book's MANY practical examples save me lots of time. This book is better than being given a copy of the test before an exam: it's like being given the exam with all of the answers filled in.