>the small pieces together. I think it'd be great if part of a chapter in
>one of these books provide maybe ten or twenty of these little chains of
>piped commands, dissects their meaning, and in doing so provides good
>techniques for this "Unix way of things". When I wrote the question in my
I think Software Tools by Kernighan and Plaugher, albeit dated, should
be in most libraries. It elicidates the Unix philosophy of quick tool
building. The classic example is the spell checker script. The rest is
just a lot of script reading and practice.
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