MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

references(3) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities references(3)
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references — related books and articles
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The following is a selection of books and articles dealing with topics found in the reference
manual for MPE/iX
Shell and Utilities. Some entries contain comments, enclosed in square
brackets [...], on the particular strengths of that reference. Please note that this list does not
represent all good sources of information on these topics, but represents our particular favor-
ites.
The first set of references covers MPE/iX Shell and Utilities in general:
IEEE P1003.2. Information Technology — Portable Operating Systems Interfaces (POSIX)) —
Part 2: Shell and Utilities Draft 12" . Institute of Electrical and Electronics En-
gineers: 1992. [Part of the
POSIX series of standards for applications and user inter-
faces to open systems. It defines the applications interface to a shell command lan-
guage, and a set of utility programs for complex data manipulation. When the User
Portability Utilities Option is included, it also defines a common environment for
general purpose time-sharing users on character-oriented display terminals.]
S. R. Bourne. The
UNIX System. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company: 1983. [This book is a
good overview of all of
UNIX and thus MPE/iX Shell and Utilities. However, it
predates such newer things as the KornShell.]
Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. The
UNIX Programming Environment. Prentice-Hall: 1984.
[Good coverage of general concepts like the file system, pipes, and filters; excellent
introduction to shell use and programming.]
Stephen G. Kochan and Patrick H. Wood. Exploring the
UNIX System. Hayden Book Com-
pany: 1984. [This book provides a good grounding in the basic utilities from
MPE/iX
Shell and Utilities and includes a section on Vi. It is in the same series as the book
on shell programming by the same authors.]
R. Pike and B. W. Kernighan ‘‘Program Design in the UNIX Environment’’ in AT&T Bell La-
boratories Technical Journal Vol. 63, No. 8 (October 1984), pp. 1595-1605. [This
article in particular, and also several others in this issue, provides some invaluable in-
sights into the history and philosophy motivating UNIX and hence MPE/iX Shell and
Utilities.]
AWK
These references deal with the awk programming language.
Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian W. Kernighan. The AWK Programming Lan-
guage. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company: 1987. [An extensive introduction to
the capabilities of awk by the designers of the language.]
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