The UNIX C Shell Field Guide

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Summary: Great book on C shell scripting.
Review: For the most part this book was very easy to read and follow. Anyone new to UNIX and the C shell would find this a good tutorial. The chapter on quoting and escaping meta characters was the most difficult to grasp, however that is more the fault of the C shell itself. However, the authors give numerous examples to help the reader understand the more difficult concepts.

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Summary: C Shell handbook... must have for your collection
Review: great beginners' section on unix commands. easy reading, and a must have for a unix library. lots of examples, but no CD and sometimes hard to go back when you just need to look up a syntax.

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Summary: The C Shell equivalent of K&P
Review: I used this book to learn more than just the fundamentals of C shell programming. Some time it is more efficient to switch to or supplement with the C shell and save many borne shell steps to accomplish the same process. The C shell environment is robust. What the C shell is not is intuitive. Therefore, you need this book for any serious scripting. This is also the basis of tcsh

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Summary: Be literate, Know your c shell (csh)
Review: I used this book to learn more than just the fundamentals of C shell programming. Some time it is more efficient to switch to or supplement with the C shell and save many borne shell steps to accomplish the same process. The C shell environment is robust. What the C shell is not is intuitive. Therefore, you need this book for any serious scripting. This is also the basis of tcsh

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Summary: The best book on unix shell programming I've read.
Review: I've used this book both as a beginner to unix and as a unix system programmer 10 years later. I would not do shell programming without it and an appropriate O'Reilly 'Unix in a nutshell' book. It is designed to be read end to end, introducing new topics bit by bit and expanding on them using numerous excellent examples which grow in complexity as the book progresses. This does give rise to my one complaint which is that while it is filled with useful tables and charts detailing various command options, etc., it can be difficult to find a particular table using the index since topics are spread throughout the book. Desipite this minor agravation, this book is in my list of 'top 10' must have unix programming books.

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Summary: Best beginners' Unix and C Shell guide
Review: If you are new to Unix, this book has everything you need to know and answers more of your questions than other books. It's incomplete in the sense that after reading this book, you just think you are ready to know more.

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Summary: It's only good for beginner of c shell programming
Review: It's only good for beginner of c shell programmin

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Summary: Best C Shell book available. No mistakes like other books.
Review: Most comprehensive C shell book. Examples are not too long but there are a sufficent number of applicable examples. Most importantly, the there are few if any errors.

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Summary: Excellent C Shell Book
Review: This book has a nice layout. The first ten pages include a reference for several unix commands which are the foundation for solid scripts. The rest of the book has nice examples that are well written. You create basic scripts that are enhanced as you learn more material. You need to change the first line to !#/bin/csh to run the scripts. I wish the author's would create a newer edition of this book.

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Summary: The C Shell equivalent of K&P
Review: This is Kernighan and Pike, "UNIX Programming
Environment" written for the c-shell. Best book
on the (t)c-shell.