linux shell programming question

[Ben Pfaff]

"Don Chorman" <damedged@home.com> writes:

> POSIX Programmer's Guide: Writing Portable UNIX Programs
> (1991-92) written by: Lewine Donald A..
>
> POSIX.4: Programming for the Real World
>  1994 written by:Bill O. Gallmeister
> 
> The POSIX.1 Standard: A Programmer's Guide
> 1991 written by: Fred Zlotnick 

None of those books are guides to shell programming.  POSIX is
much more than a shell specification.

Found the following book on fatbrain.com which looks pretty good.
I haven't read it though:
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Portable Shell Programming : An Extensive Collection of Bourne
Shell Examples

By Blinn, Bruce

Online Price: $48.00     List Price: $48.00
Softcover                Published by Prentice Hall
                         Date Published: 10/1995
[ Add Item to Basket ]   ISBN: 0134514947

In Stock - Orders received by 4 p.m. ship the same day
Floppy included.

(HAS Moreinfo) Summary

Key Benefit: Traditionally, books on shell programming present
the shell as the user interface to UNIX. This complete guide
shows how to use the shell to develop shell scripts, using the
shell more like a programming language than a command
interpreter.

Key Topics: Covers shell syntax, portability on different UNIX
systems, using shell scripts to catch or ignore signals,
executing commands using the remote shell command, and using the
shell''s redirection syntaxes.

Market: For software development engineers, system
administrators, and QA test engineers who work with UNIX computer
systems.
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