... theUnix tools, together with the standard shell, to get your job done. This is the art of shell scripting. Shell scripting requires not just a knowledge of the shell language, butalso a knowledge ... been doing shell scripting for 30 years?!? Well, now that I thinkabout it, I suppose I have, although it was only in a small way at first. (The earlyUnix shells, before the Bourne shell, were ... compiled lan-guages and scripting languages, and the tradeoffs between them. Then it moveson, covering the very basics of shell scripting with two simple but useful shell scripts. The coverage...