On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:53:22AM -0700, Dave Peters wrote:
> Any suggestion for a good unix shell book and a perl book for beginner? I plan to teach my kids.
> Thanks.

For Perl, the usual is "Learning Perl" by that nefarious criminal,
Randall Schwartz.  My advice would be to just skip chapter 1 entirely.

For the shell, I believe I used this book:

  http://www.amazon.com/Shell-Programming-Revised-Stephen-Kochan/dp/067248448X

There are certainly more current books available, but I thought this
book (if it is indeed the one I learned with) did a particularly
servicable job of teaching the subject.

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