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Summary: This book is an extremely useful guide to shell scripting.
Review: Tim Hill's "Windows NT Shell Scripting" is a useful guide to NT shell scripts, even for those who have extensive experience with UNIX scripts or DOS batch files. It explains in detail the operations of NT's cmd.exe console and how it differs from the MS-DOS command.com shell. It also contains several scripts for user management and other administrative tasks, and an alphabetical list of Resource Kit commands as well as standard shell commands.Only one minor caveat: in the section detailing the SLEEP command, there is a :WAITLOOP technique that can be more elegantly effected by the use of a /WAIT switch during the START command (which the book also documents). I recommend this book highly.
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Summary: This book is an extremely useful guide to shell scripting.
Review: Tim Hill's "Windows NT Shell Scripting" is a useful guide to NT shell scripts, even for those who have extensive experience with UNIX scripts or DOS batch files. It explains in detail the operations of NT's cmd.exe console and how it differs from the MS-DOS command.com shell. It also contains several scripts for user management and other administrative tasks, and an alphabetical list of Resource Kit commands as well as standard shell commands. Only one minor caveat: in the section detailing the SLEEP command, there is a :WAITLOOP technique that can be more elegantly effected by the use of a /WAIT switch during the START command (which the book also documents). I recommend this book highly.
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Summary: A "must-have" for NT (and NT applications) administrators
Review: Whether you are responsible for the care and feeding of your organization's NT systems or just need to automate some everyday tasks, you need this book. Clearly written, concise, with usable script code, the author presents many useful tips, tricks, and procedures for writing complex NT command scripts.
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