This Book Is for You If . . .
As with any technical book, an important question for Wicked Cool Shell Scripts is whether this book is for you. While it's certainly not a primer on how to use the Unix, Linux, or Mac OS X shell to automate tasks, and it doesn't list all the possible conditional tests that you can utilize with the test command, this book should nonetheless be engaging, exciting, and stimulating for anyone who has ever delved into the murky world of shell scripting. If you want to learn how to write a script, well, there are lots of great references online. But they all have one thing in common: They offer dull, simple, and uninteresting examples. Instead, this book is intended to be a cookbook, a sort of "best of" hacks compendium ...
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