Praise for the first edition of *Wicked Cool Shell Scripts*

A practical collection of ready-to-run shell scripts for Linux, macOS, and UNIX systems. Aimed at intermediate users (with a crash course for beginners), it covers system administration, web utilities, cloud-related tasks, and everyday command-line productivity enhancements.

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Per chapter: $0.25 USDC

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Chapters

  1. What To Take Away (Free teaser)
  2. Organization Of This Book ($0.25)
  3. What Is A Shell Script Anyway ($0.25)
  4. Configuring Your Login Script ($0.25)
  5. Lets Get Cracking ($0.25)
  6. Hacking The Script ($0.25)
  7. Hacking The Script 2 ($0.25)
  8. Hacking The Script 3 ($0.25)
  9. Hacking The Script 4 ($0.25)
  10. Hacking The Script 5 ($0.25)
  11. Hacking The Script 6 ($0.25)
  12. The Results ($0.25)
  13. Hacking The Script 7 ($0.25)
  14. Running The Script ($0.25)
  15. 14 Formatting Long Lines ($0.25)
  16. 15 Backing Up Files As Theyre Removed ($0.25)
  17. 16 Working With The Removed File Archive ($0.25)
  18. 17 Logging File Removals ($0.25)
  19. 18 Displaying The Contents Of Directories ($0.25)
  20. 19 Locating Files By Filename ($0.25)
  21. 21 Displaying Time In Different Time Zones ($0.25)
  22. 22 A Reminder Utility ($0.25)
  23. 24 Converting Temperatures ($0.25)
  24. 25 Calculating Loan Payments ($0.25)
  25. Hacking The Script 8 ($0.25)
  26. The Results 2 ($0.25)
  27. The Results 3 ($0.25)
  28. How It Works ($0.25)
  29. The Results 4 ($0.25)
  30. The Results 5 ($0.25)
  31. Hacking The Script 9 ($0.25)
  32. 40 Adding Users To The System ($0.25)
  33. 41 Suspending A User Account ($0.25)
  34. 42 Deleting A User Account ($0.25)
  35. 43 Validating The User Environment ($0.25)
  36. 45 Tracking Set User Id Applications ($0.25)
  37. 46 Setting The System Date ($0.25)
  38. 47 Killing Processes By Name ($0.25)
  39. 48 Validating User Crontab Entries ($0.25)
  40. 49 Ensuring That System Cron Jobs Are Run ($0.25)
  41. 50 Rotating Log Files ($0.25)
  42. 51 Managing Backups ($0.25)
  43. The Results 6 ($0.25)
  44. Hacking The Script 10 ($0.25)
  45. The Code ($0.25)
  46. The Code 2 ($0.25)
  47. Hacking The Script 11 ($0.25)
  48. The Code 3 ($0.25)
  49. Hacking The Script 12 ($0.25)
  50. The Results 7 ($0.25)
  51. The Code 4 ($0.25)
  52. Hacking The Script 13 ($0.25)
  53. The Code 5 ($0.25)
  54. Hacking The Script 14 ($0.25)
  55. The Code 6 ($0.25)
  56. Hacking The Script 15 ($0.25)
  57. The Code 7 ($0.25)
  58. The Code 8 ($0.25)
  59. The Code 9 ($0.25)
  60. The Code 10 ($0.25)
  61. F Ixing Os X Line Endings ($0.25)
  62. Hacking The Script 16 ($0.25)
  63. How It Works 2 ($0.25)
  64. The Code 11 ($0.25)
  65. The Code 12 ($0.25)
  66. The Code 13 ($0.25)
  67. The Code 14 ($0.25)
  68. The Code 15 ($0.25)
  69. Hacking The Script 17 ($0.25)
  70. The Code 16 ($0.25)
  71. The Code 17 ($0.25)
  72. The Code 18 ($0.25)
  73. The Code 19 ($0.25)
  74. The Code 20 ($0.25)
  75. The Code 21 ($0.25)
  76. The Code 22 ($0.25)
  77. The Code 23 ($0.25)
  78. The Code 24 ($0.25)
  79. The Code 25 ($0.25)
  80. Hacking The Script 18 ($0.25)