I admit, "the critics rave" about my shell scripting book -- though more importantly to me, the readers also rave -- and only yesterday I found out that LinuxWorld Magazine awarded it the Best Shell Script Programming Book of the Year.
Here's what they say about it:
Essential Title:
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
by Dave Taylor
Honorable Mention:
None.
What we consider to be one of the best books on Linux shell scripting ever written, and one that is a must for any new or intermediate level Linux administrator, is Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. This is the book that every other publisher tries to imitate. Unless you know shell inside and out, this book should be on your bookshelf.
Most of the reviewers for this article are comfortable on the command line and we have written more than our share of scripts, yet these same admins find this book to be handy when we simply want the answer without having to develop and debug the entire script ourselves. We only wish that this book had been out back in the early 1990s so we could have learned scripting quicker.
An honorable mention cannot be made in this category since Wicked Cool Shell Scripts is so far above anything else available in this area.
So there you have it. According to my friends at
LinuxWorld Magazine, my shell scripting book is the best book in its category published in 2004, if not ever. What's more, my Mom likes it too. :-)
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