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# Pro Bash Programming, Second Edition: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    This Edition Is Under-rated
  

*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2016*

I am surprised by the harsh reviews. I thought the material was well organized. I am not a bash newbie. I am a seasoned sysadmin with a programming background. While I don't think the authors (this was a revised book with a second author collaborating) did the best job of demonstrating how bash could be approached as a programming language, I did feel the material covered many of the finer points of bash. The minor details of the shell language are very important. I think the book could have included more examples, but it was well written. Perhaps a third edition could be restructured so that bash is portrayed outside of a scriting glue language and portrayed as a semi-programming language (it has programming features. For example the bash shell actually has a main function that is undeclared, like a C program). Bash, in my opinion is still a glue language because it isn't efficient when used as a standalone. For example, using bash to match text in a file is a heck of a lot slower than using grep. I will agree that bash scripts can be approached logically as a C/C++ file if you organize it as such, but nothing in the languge syntax forces such a structures approach. I agree that bash scripts wouldbe easier to read and troubleshot if bash scripting was approached this way.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The author makes the point that Bash Shell programming is true programming and can accomplish a great deal. He says that he uses
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2015*

People have different preferences when learning a language.  The author makes the point that Bash Shell programming is true programming and can accomplish a great deal.  He says that he uses it exclusively, resorting to C only when he needs the speed improvement offered by the compiled language, compared with the interpreted Bash scripts (programs).  He gives a great deal of information and points out many subtle traps that people often fall into.  I bought the book, and I intend to learn from it---regardless.  I would have wanted a different book.  I'd like to have both better, more crisply written, example tasks in which to learn the functioning of many commands.  I'd like a better organized and more specifically complete dictionary of all the commands that are available in this programming style.  The author could say---and be correct---that it's all in this book and all I need to do is read it carefully.  That's true.  If it were organized a little differently, I could do that much quicker and much more palatably.  The author is a gifted programmer, and the information is there.  It probably contains information that is not easy to find elsewhere.  On the other hand, I don't think the author is a gifted teacher.

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I'm lost halfway through Chapter 2.
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2016*

I've been able to learn Java through textbooks so I figured bash scripting can't be much different.  Not enough information is provided to make this book useful.  It's overly confusing and difficult to read.  If the authors were describing the unfamiliar tools of a specialized mechanic they might tell you "Croapers are Dipplers containing Trabulits. They can be used as a substitute for Horpsules.  Exercise:  Build an electron microscope."

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