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This complete guide shows how to use the shell to develop shell scripts, using the shell more like a programming language than a command interpreter. Covers shell syntax, portability on different UNIX systems, using shell scripts to catch or ignore signals, executing commands using the remote shell command, and using the shells redirection syntaxes.* focuses on shells that are portable, known as Bourne Shells. * provides over 250 major shell examples that show most of the common tasks of shell programmers. * contains several complete shell scripts, described on a line-by-line basis, that can be used as templates. * offers solutions for coding practices that frequently cause problems.

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Bruce Blinn has worked with Hewlett-Packard for over thirteen years, and is currently a member of the technical staff working on the HP-UX operating system. In 1990, he was one of the founders of Clarity Software, Inc., producers of a multimedia text processing product named Rapport. It was at Clarity Software that he developed his expertise in shell programming.

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