The POSIX Shell and Command-Line Utilities -- Playing with Files: Viewing, Manipulating, and Editing Text Files -- String Briefs -- What’s in a Word? -- Scripting by Numbers -- Loose Names Sink Scripts: Bringing Sanity to Filenames -- Treading a Righteous PATH -- The Dating Game -- Good Housekeeping: Monitoring and Tidying Up File Systems -- POP Goes the E-Mail -- PostScript: More Than an Afterthought -- Screenplay: The screen—funcs Library -- Backing Up the Drive -- Aging, Archiving, and Deleting Files -- Covering All Your Databases -- Home on the Web -- Taking Care of Business -- Random Acts of Scripting -- A Smorgasbord of Scripts -- Script Development Management.This book is geared towards any Unix user who doesn't want to spend time creating or testing shell scripts. Instead, Shell Scripting Recipes dissects and explains over 150 much-needed and practical real-world examples, and then shows the reader how and when to appropriately use them. Because most scripts found in this book are POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface)-compliant, they are supported by many of the major shell variants, including Bash, ksh and sh, among others. File conversion, system administration, and resource monitoring are just a few of the topics covered in this highly practical shell scripting reference.