Unix C Shell Field Guide

by Gail Anderson, Paul Anderson

In-depth study of the C shell as a command interpreter and the gateway to other programs and utilities running under UNIX.

Genres: Reference, Computers, Programming, Nonfiction

374 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1986

Reviews

[Steven Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first book related to UNIX I ever read cover to cover and a frequent reread/reference. While bash emerged as the shell standard via Linux, I’ll always have an affinity for csh due to cutting my teeth on it for shell scripting.

[George Hipp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Foundational book for beginning or advanced programmers in C. Some of the best explanations and examples for pointers, still have it on my shelf.

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Be literate; know your c shell (csh)

I used this book to learn more than just the fundamentals of C shell programming. Sometimes it is more efficient to switch to or supplement with the C shell and save many borne shell steps to accomplish the same process. The C shell environment is robust. What the C shell is not is intuitive. Therefore, you need this book for any serious scripting. One example of the usefulness of the book is the use of the “here” document. Here documents can be found in other shells also but if you want to know how to use this function and take in literal information without substitution then you will need to read this book.

This is also the basis of tcsh.

[Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best documentation for csh.