Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting by Randy Michael. Reviews. by Marco Fioretti. on November 1, 2004. John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN: 0471218219. ... The most arcane shell commands and options are ...

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.

A shell script is a list of commands that are read by the shell and executed in order. Shell scripts also support some programming language fundamentals, such as variables, flow control and data ...