Unix and Shell Programming by Laxmi Publications

This book, designed to meet the course on UNIX and SHELL Programming for graduate and undergraduate engineering students, presents an illuminative and objective exploration of algorithms and programming skills on UNIX and SHELL. The authors discuss all the concepts such as operating system services, file system, buffer cache, reading and writing disk blocks, inode assignment to a new file, system calls, structure and control of a process, inter-process communication, and sockets with the help of illustrations, tables, block diagrams, and industry based practical examples. This volume also examines the detail of UNIX command, SHELL, AWK, and PERL programming with a large number of practical examples supported by their algorithm. Written in a student-friendly manner the book is enriched with the following features:

• Algorithms for a number of problems have been given to inculcate real programming skills
• Describe and compare the algorithm used in UNIX system to that used in other operating systems
• Syntax for a large number of UNIX command
• SHELL script for a number of real life problems
• Brief of AWK and PERL programming
• Straight forward exercises to illustrate the concepts at the end of the book

The book is useful for general students, engineering students of graduate and postgraduate level, subject teachers, professionals, application programmers, and industry specialist associated with the UNIX and SHELL programming.