Good but some issues

The claims that the author gives equal scripting time to each OS and all shells is very misleading.
The author hates Windows and never misses a chance to let you know this - I wish the author had left the personal views and OS politics out ...
or just not covered Windows at all. (Which by the way isn't covered at all - other than the Cygwin program and why the author hates Windows so much.)

This book uses the BASH shell almost exclusively with some "oh yea, this syntax won't work on the C Shell" thrown in.
the Korn & Z Shells are treated like they don't even exist - and BASH is always the only way to go.

The book at about Chapter 3 becomes more of a "look what i can do" and "here write this out in a text editor and save the file as this", without much explaInation as to why it happens that way and what the syntax introduced means. With some syntax being introduced in a script and never being explained or referenced at all.

The terms the Author uses are as technical as you can get (like Palindromic Scripting" instead of saying a number reads the same forward and backwards (ex. 15851) or even symmetrical would have been a better term for a newbie. Luckily i know what Palindromic numbers are.

Not a good book for Newbies ... too much un-explained out of nowhere syntax - related in the most technical terms the Author could find. It reads more like a technical manual on something ... not a how to learn from the ground up book. Your just as well off reading the MAN pages.

Other Reviews

• Good for Pro !
• Impressed
• Seems More of Disorganized Showing Off
• A minor clarification from one of the authors
• Good but some issues