Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: Bash, Bourne, and Korn Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators, and UNIX Gurus, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-470-18301-4
Paperback
1032 pages
June 2008
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Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction xxvii
Part One The Basics of Shell Scripting
Chapter 1 Scripting Quick Start and Review 3
Chapter 2 24 Ways to Process a File Line-by-Line 67
Chapter 3 Automated Event Notification 131
Chapter 4 Progress Indicators Using a Series of Dots, a Rotating Line, or Elapsed Time 143
Part Two Scripts for Programmers, Testers, and Analysts
Chapter 5 Working with Record Files 157
Chapter 6 Automated FTP Stuff 187
Chapter 7 Using rsync to Efficiently Replicate Data 219
Chapter 8 Automating Interactive Programs with Expect and Autoexpect 291
Chapter 9 Finding Large Files and Files of a Specific Type 325
Chapter 10 Process Monitoring and Enabling Pre-Processing, Startup, and Post-Processing Events 335
Chapter 11 Pseudo-Random Number and Data Generation 369
Chapter 12 Creating Pseudo-Random Passwords 401
Chapter 13 Floating-Point Math and the bc Utility 433
Chapter 14 Number Base Conversions 475
Chapter 15 hgrep: Highlighted grep Script 515
Chapter 16 Monitoring Processes and Applications 527
Part Three Scripts for Systems Administrators
Chapter 17 Filesystem Monitoring 553
Chapter 18 Monitoring Paging and Swap Space 603
Chapter 19 Monitoring System Load 641
Chapter 20 Monitoring for Stale Disk Partitions (AIX-Specific) 677
Chapter 21 Turning On/Off SSA Identification Lights 697
Chapter 22 Automated Hosts Pinging with Notification of Failure 723
Chapter 23 Creating a System-Configuration Snapshot 741
Chapter 24 Compiling, Installing, Configuring, and Using sudo 777
Chapter 25 Print-Queue Hell: Keeping the Printers Printing 809
Chapter 26 Those Pesky Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Audits 851
Chapter 27 Using Dirvish with rsync to Create Snapshot-Type Backups 867
Chapter 28 Monitoring and Auditing User Keystrokes 935
Appendix A What’s on the Web Site 955
Index 977