Solutions to exercises found in: Shell Programming in Unix, Linux, and OS X, by Stephen G. Kochan and Patrick Wood
Short version: the chapter and page numbers refer to the 4th edition, even though the exercises are taken from 3rd edition.
Full version: this repository contains solutions to the exercises from the textbook series on shell programming by Stephen G. Kochan and Patrick Wood. The two most recent editions of this series are the following:
- Shell Programming in Unix, Linux, and OS X (4th edition)
- Unix Shell Programming (3rd edition)
The version of the textbook that I have is the 4th edition. It turns out however, that the 4th edition has inexplicably removed the exercises that were part of the previous edition (at least the electronic version of the 3rd edition that I have access to). Consequently, the exercises presented in the repository are from the 3rd edition.
It gets complicated though: although the editions are nearly identical in content, a short introduction from the 3rd edition is counted as a chapter whereas in the 4th edition it is not considered to be a chapter, and consequently the indexing of the chapters is off by 1. However, since I was working out of the 4th edition book since this is what I had the physical copy of, it was easier for me to refer to the chapters and page numbers from the 4th edition as opposed to the 3rd (and since page numbers of the electronic version of the 3rd edition likely did not match that of the physical edition anyway).
The (4th edition of the) book has 14 chapters; each chapter is given a directory in the repository. Within each chapter, exercise solutions are typically provided either as a text file or shell script file. Each chapter has a README file describing the files associated with the various exercises, and in some cases examples of how to use and/or test them. For some problems, there are accompanying test files, and sometimes other files are also included to assist testing of the exercises; these additional files are also described in the chapter's README file.