Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition by Dave Taylor

Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition

101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and UNIX Systems

Dave Taylor, Brandon Perry

No Starch Press · Print & ebook · October 15, 2016

Shell scripts are an efficient way to interact with your machine and manage your files and system operations.

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Who it’s for
Explore shell scripts for system tasks, file management, customization, and a few diversions.
Themes
Shell scripting, System and file management, Computing customization
Genres
Programming Basics, Sysadmin, Disaster Recovery

About this book

Shell scripts are an efficient way to interact with your machine and manage your files and system operations. With just a few lines of code, your computer will do exactly what you want it to do. But you can also use shell scripts for many other essential (and not-so-essential) tasks. This second edition of Wicked Cool Shell Scripts offers a collection of useful, customizable, and fun shell scripts for solving common problems and personalizing your computing environment.

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Each chapter contains ready-to-use scripts and explanations of how they work, why you’d want to use them, and suggestions for changing and expanding them. You'll find a mix of classic favorites, like a disk backup utility that keeps your files safe when your system crashes, a password manager, a weather tracker, and several games, as well as 23 brand-new scripts, including: – ZIP code lookup tool that reports the city and state – Bitcoin address information retriever – suite of tools for working with cloud services like Dropbox and iCloud – for renaming and applying commands to files in bulk – processing and editing tools Whether you want to save time managing your system or just find new ways to goof off, these scripts are wicked cool!

Shell Script Toolkit

Explore shell scripts for system tasks, file management, customization, and a few diversions.

Come here for

  • Ready-to-use scripts for backups, passwords, weather tracking, and games
  • Tools for ZIP code lookup, cloud services, and bulk file operations

Expect

  • Explanations of how scripts work and why you might use them
  • Suggestions for changing and expanding scripts

Where it sits

Programming Basics41%
Disaster Recovery20%
Sysadmin17%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Macintosh Systems
  • UNIX Systems
  • Linux Systems
Authors
Dave Taylor, Brandon Perry
Publisher
No Starch Press
Published
October 15, 2016
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Shell scripting · System and file management · Computing customization
Reading lane
Macintosh Systems