Bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Bash Users (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

The book is awesome and fulfills all my expectations of what a cookbook should be. You can ignore the 1-star review because that reviewer just made the mistake of thinking Cookbooks are for novices - they are not. If you know a little bash, then this book will bootstrap you all the way up to expert if you take the time to study it. Even if you don't care to be a bash expert you still want this book -- it will save you a ton of time on every bash script you write. I've owned the book for less than a week and already used 6 different recipes within 2 scripts I needed to write. I used to get apprehensive every time I needed to drop into bash - basically because I don't use it frequently enough to ever master. As long as this book is by my side I will fear no more!