Who this book is for

If you are a beginner, or an intermediate user, who wants to master the skill of quickly writing scripts to perform various tasks without reading entire man pages, this book is for you. You can start writing scripts and one-liners by simply looking at a similar recipe and its descriptions without any working knowledge of shell scripting or Linux. Intermediate or advanced users, as well as system administrators or developers and programmers, can use this book as a reference when they face problems while coding.

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