I was lucky enough to be asked to review the 2nd edition of the aforementioned book. I just received my copy today, so many thanks to the guys that made that possible! From what I’ve read of the book in its draft form, it’s a book that will come in incredibly useful to me, as I’m a big fan of shell programming & generally using the shell*.

If you’re looking to become more familiar with the shell/command line in Linux, I’d definitely recommend it.

Amazon Link

*No flames please!

Fact is, I procrastinate…a lot…and it’s all too easy for me. So I’ve decided that when it comes to University work, I’ll actually try and do it instead of sitting idling on IRC, browsing the forums, or going on Facebook. I mean…obviously I’ll still be doing those, but it should be in between doing work. Not doing work in between doing those things.

I think this partly means I have to use Ubuntu more (yay!). Because I can never be bothered to fiddle with it all that much, but the main piece of work I have for Uni right now is to write a unix shell, so the 2 go hand in hand So that’s my plan, and I’m sincerely hoping I stick to it.

Either way, there’s now public evidence of me saying it, so we’ll find out soon enough!!