As part of thebest-selling Pocket Primer series, this book is designed to introducereaders to an assortment of useful command-line utilities that can be combinedto create simple, yet powerful shell scripts. While all examples and scriptsuse the "e;bash"e; command set, many of the concepts translate into other commandshells (such as sh, ksh, zsh, and csh), including theconcept of piping data between commands and the highly versatile sed and awk commands. Aimedat a reader relatively new to working in a bash environment, the book iscomprehensive enough to be a good reference and teach a few new techniques tothose who already have some experience with creating shell scripts. It containsa variety of code fragments and shell scripts for data scientists, dataanalysts, and other people who want shell-based solutions to "e;clean"e; varioustypes of text files. In addition, the concepts and code samples in this bookare useful for people who want to simplify routine tasks. Includes companion files with all of the source code examples (download from the publisher by writing to
info@merclearning.com). Features:Takesintroductory concepts and commands in bash, and then demonstrates their uses insimple, yet powerful shell scriptsContains anassortment of shell scripts for data scientists, data analysts, and otherpeople who want shell-based solutions to "e;clean"e; various types of text filesIncludes companion files with all of thesource code examples (available for download from the publisher)
