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| Sales Rank: | 385109 (lower is better) |
| Price Used: | $8.95 |
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| Release Date: | 1993-03-13 |
| Label: | O'Reilly |
| Pages: | 1162 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 1993-03-13 |
| Published By: | O'Reilly |
| ASIN: | 067979073X |
| Category: | Book |
This UNIX book, in contrast, assumes that you are basically a competent and intelligent individual, and that you are sufficiently secure in your self-image at work that you simply want to get things done, simply, by taking advantage of the real power of UNIX without having to learn "man-speak". It doesn't skimp on clear introductions and overviews, but the focus of the book is on practical examples of the most useful UNIX commands and utilities. A minor quibble: the enclosed CD-ROM is a bit heavy with utilities and packages that are probably already resident on your UNIX system (like Perl, Emacs, pbmplus), but it does contain scripts that are used throughout the book and that you'd probably rather not type in. Highly recommended for anyone who really wants to use UNIX, and not just cower or pose.
If you are a beginner, you can open this book, and find all kinds of great tools and techniques you never knew about before. Everything is described briefly, in just a page or two, so you can immediately get something out of it. If you are more advanced, you will find yourself flipping through pages, saying, "Yes, I knew that. Yes, I knew that. Oh, I didn't know that!"
This book is jam packed with tips, techniques and tutorials. If you're a serious UNIX user or shell programmer, this is an extremely handy book to have around. It's only negative might be that there is just so much in here, it is sometimes overwhelming. On the up side, there is an excellent index at the back.
In particular there is a lot of info here on shell scripting showing the differences between the Korn, Bourne and C shells.
What is good about this book is that it' not just a refernce but shows you the steps in getting really difficult things done.
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