This is a second edition of the scripting book for Linux, OS X and UNIX by Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry. It offers a collection of useful, customizable, and fun shell scripts for solving common problems and personalizing your computing environment. Shell scripts let you interact with your machine and manage your files and system operations with just a few lines of code. You can also use shell scripts for many other essential (and not-so-essential) tasks.

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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.

Author: Dave Taylor & Brandon Perry
Publisher: No Starch Press
Date: November 2016
Pages: 392
ISBN: 978-1593276027
Print: 1593276028
Kindle: N/A
Audience: Anyone administering UNIX or Linux machines
Level: intermediate
Category: Operating Systems

New scripts in this edition include: 

• A ZIP code lookup tool that reports the city and state
• A Bitcoin address information retriever
• A suite of tools for working with cloud services like Dropbox and iCloud
• Tools for renaming and applying commands to files in bulk
• Image processing and editing tools

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