Expert Shell Scripting

Abstract

BRIAN CULP has worked professionally in the information-services industry for 20 years.Throughout those years he has worked with startups and small businesses, and spent a dozen years employed by a leading company in the IT industry. Brian has spent time on service desks, as a UNIX systems admin, a project manager, an commerce/business website administrator, and a solutions developer. Brian’s development and use of UNIX shell scripts has always grown out of specific needs, as he always seems to be in some stage of trying to solve a technical problem. He hopes you will find the scripts and methods described in this book useful in building your own problem-solving toolkit.