bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users

Cameron Newham lives in Perth, Western Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Science majoring in information technology and geography at the University of Western Australia, Cameron joined Universal Defence Systems (later to become Australian Defence Industries) as a software engineer. He has been with ADI for six years, working on various aspects of command and control systems. In his spare time Cameron can be found surfing the Internet, ballroom dancing, or driving his sports car. He also has more than a passing interest in space science, 3D graphics, synthesiser music, and Depeche Mode. JP Vossen has been working with computers since the early 80s and has been in the IT industry since the early 90s, specializing in Information Security since the late 90s. He's been fascinated with scripting and automation since he first understood what an autoexec.bat was, and was delighted to discover the power and flexibility of bash and GNU on Linux in the mid-90s. He has previously written for Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity.com, among others. On those few occasion when he's not in front of a computer, he is usually taking something apart, putting something together, or both. Carl Albing has worked for large companies and small startups, in technical as well as in managerial and marketing roles. He wrote compiler software while at NCR, medical image processing software at a small startup, distributed computing software for the premier supercomputing company Cray Research, Inc. His experience in software development goes back to the early 1970's working with the C Language and Unix. In the last few years, he has put new Linux and Java technologies to use for real-world business solutions. His education includes graduate work in Computer Science as well as a degree in Mathematics and an International MBA.