Title: Easy to read and use; watch for typos
Product review: For persons looking for an easy to read and easy to understand guide to shell programming, this is the best one I have found. I blame the publisher, not the author, for failure to rein in typographical errors, but I do not agree with some other reviewers that this is a big problem with this book. If a few typos are going to put you off, then shell programming in Unix may not be what you should be doing. The strength of this book is in its organization and presentation, which is uniform and clear throughout. This makes the book fatter than most, but if brevity and cryptic descriptions are what you seek, just use "man" and don't waste your money on a book at all. The book makes it easy to compare the three common shells. For the programmer new to Unix, I could not recommend a better Shell guide. Ellie Quigley is a teacher and this book is an excellent teaching tool.
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