Acknowledgments
I'd like to thank the Children's Aid Society Foundation of Metropolitan Toronto, who introduced me to Unix and hired me as their Systems Administrator two weeks later. Their system was a 20MHz 386, with 8MB RAM, 105MB hard drive, 12 serial terminals, 4 serial printers, and a 1200 bps modem. There was no C compiler, so I had to learn shell scripting. And the man pages were in the red binder that now has a permanent place on my bookshelf.
Special thanks go to the denizens of the comp.unix.shell newsgroup who showed me how much I didn't know about shell scripting when I thought I was an accomplished scripter. Special mention goes to Stéphane Chazelas, who catches the most obscure problems; Heiner Stevens, whose SHELLdorado web site ...
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