Korn Shell Programming by Example

Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank the folks at Que for helping me with my first book project. Their sensitivity to my needs has been outstanding. Thanks in particular to Gretchen Ganser, Sean Dixon, Megan Wade, Paul Love, and Tricia Liebig for scrubbing it all up for me.

Thanks to David Pitts for outlining and starting the project.

I'd also like to thank my partner and friend, Bruce Ellis, for his encouragement and for providing the inspiration for some of the example scripts. Thanks to all the folks at Bruden Corp. for their understanding while I toiled in the darkness. Thanks to Susan Ellis, Glenn Oehms, Laurel Zolfonoon, Keith McLaughlin, and Scott Fafrak.

Many thanks to Robert Katz, a spectacular Korn Shell script writer from Compaq. His ...