Chapter 1: Introducing Shells.

Chapter 2: Introducing Shell Scripts.

Chapter 3: Controlling How Scripts Run.

Chapter 4: Interacting with the Environment.

Chapter 5: Scripting with Files.

Chapter 6: Processing Text with sed.

Chapter 7: Processing Text with awk.

Chapter 8: Creating Command Pipelines.

Chapter 9: Controlling Processes.

Chapter 10: Shell Scripting Functions.

Chapter 11: Debugging Shell Scripts.

Chapter 12: Graphing Data with MRTG.

Chapter 13: Scripting for Administrators.

Chapter 14: Scripting for the Desktop.

Appendix A: Answers to Exercises.

Appendix B: Useful Commands.

Index.