Books
- Unix in a Nutshell, 2nd ed, by Daniel Gilly, et al. O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
- The essential reference for Unix in general and shell programming in particular. Not a learning tool, however.
- Portable Shell Programming, by Bruce Blinn. Prentice-Hall PTR, 1996.
- There is a dearth of good shell programming books. This is the best that I've found. Almost entirely on the bourne shell but that's not a drawback -- it's a good thing.
- Learning the Korn Shell, by Bill Rosenblatt. O'Reilly & Associates, 1993.
- Covers the Korn shell as a user interface and as a programming language.
- sed & awk, 2nd ed, by Dale Dougherty & Arnold Robbins. O'Reilly & Associates, 1997.
- Everything you wanted to know about these two Unix utilities.
Books
- Learning Perl, 2nd ed, by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen. O'Reilly & Associates, 1997.
- A "gentle introduction" to the language. Not meant to be comprehensive but covers the basics for the novice Perl programmer.
- Programming Perl, 2nd ed, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz. O'Reilly & Associates, 1996.
- The classic reference to Perl's syntax, functions, modules, references, etc. Emphasis on the reference - this is not the book to learn from.
- Perl Cookbook, by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. O'Reilly & Associates, 1998.
- A 700+ page collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples. See how other, wiser Perl programmers have solved just the problem you've been scratching your head over.
- Programming the Perl DBI, by Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce. O'Reilly & Associates, 2000.
- Very handy guide if you decide to use Perl to extract custom reports from your Voyager database.
URL's
- www.perl.com
- Where to get the latest Perl distribution and everything Perl-related. Lots of information.
- sunfreeware.com
- The site for Solaris compiled Perl binaries.
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