Wicked Cool Shell Scripts—101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix Systems

by Dave Taylor

San Francisco

Copyright � 2004 by Dave Taylor.

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Taylor, Dave.
  Wicked cool shell scripts / Dave Taylor.
       p. cm.

ISBN 1-59327-012-7

1. UNIX (Computer file) 2. UNIX Shells. I. Title.

QA76.76.O63T3895 2004

005.4'32--dc22

2003017496