Organization of This Book
This book is organized into 12 chapters that reflect the wide range of different ways that shell scripts can improve and streamline your use of Unix. If you're a Mac OS X fan — as I am — rest assured that almost every script in this book will work just fine in both Jaguar and Panther, with the exception of those scripts that check the /etc/passwd file for account information. (The user password information is in the NetInfo database instead. Visit the book's website for a discussion of this issue and how to work with nireport and nidump instead.)
Chapter 1: The Missing Code Library
Programming languages in the Unix environment, particularly C and Perl, have extensive libraries of useful functions and utilities to ...
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