BayLISA Monthly: 11/18/04: Programming the Bourne Again Shell (bash), Mark Soebell

Thu Nov 4 18:33:11 PST 2004

        BayLISA Monthly Technical Talk & General Meeting

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Where: Apple Computer, Town Hall Auditorium
Addr:  Four Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA
http://www.baylisa.org/locations/
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Date:  Thursday, 18 November 2004
Time:  7:30pm - 9:30pm PST

Programming the Bourne Again Shell (bash)
Mark Soebell

Mark will cover various aspects of bash shell programming, and include 
tips to help you read and understand scripts that come with a system. 
Topics include positional (command line) parameters, command 
substitution, control structures, debugging shell scripts, and checking 
arguments. In addition to discussing elements of the bash programming 
language, Mark will walk through some scripts to give an idea of how the 
elements fit together.

Mark G. Sobell, author of many best-selling books, including A Practical 
Guide to the UNIX System, UNIX System V: A Practical Guide, A Practical 
Guide to Solaris, A Practical Guide to Linux, and A Practical Guide to 
Red Hat Linux (all from Addison Wesley), as well as A Practical Guide to 
Red Hat Linux 2/e (Prentice Hall), has more than twenty-five years of 
experience working with UNIX and Linux. He is the president of Sobell 
Associates Inc., a consulting firm that designs and builds custom 
software applications for UNIX and Linux systems and provides training 
and support.

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