Your Unix: The Ultimate Guide

by Sumitabha Das

Book Overview

Serving as a pedagogical tool and a reference, this book is intended for any Unix course. It is also useful for any introductory programming course that includes Unix, and for advanced courses such as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072520426
• ISBN13: 9780072520422
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Length: 706 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Must Have!

this is a great reference book, it explains clearly how to do basic things in unix without confusing the hell out of you. one of the only books i'm keeping after the course was over.

My favorite UNIX book!

This book is very easy to read and understand. Every section clearly explains the topic and offers plenty of fully explained examples. I find this book an excellent reference for the basics of using the command line, shell scripting, sed and awk. Unlike most textbooks, this will not bore you with heaps of theory--you can use it as a tutorial and to try out the examples as you read. I use linux daily and find almost everything in the book applicable.

Excellent for Teaching at the Undergraduate Level

As a former Bell Labs Engineer, I have tasted most of the flavors of Unix. As a computer science professor for 18 years, this is the best book that I have used. The Self-test and exercises gives the user a structured approach to learning Unix, which doesn't always happen in the Unix world. The examples in the text are easy to interpret and the author provides several variations of the commands. The book has an extra bonus with the perl, system administration and TCP/IP sections.

WOW! That's a book!

I like easy to read books and I also had assumed that learning UNIX is not necessarily has to be a struggle. This book stood up to my expectations almost perfectly: it is very well written and clearly expressed work. It does not overwhelm with technical details and does not press too much. I also followed an advise in someone review and purchased "UNIX Essentials" DVD that is complete unix course recorded. These two nicely complement one another. You watch it and you read it. If you didn't catch it from the first try you watch it again and read it again. In two months I found myself confident to that extend that gave advises to our system administrator and he accepted them because there were subjects that he wasn't completely sure. What I can say, in three month I passed my first interview and got a job! Sure it is a way to start there much of more advanced reading that will take over you with a time however these two provide you with the BASIS! I can't overstate how much I have learned from them. Don't be naive, though. You will have to learn and memorize many things. The fact of owning neither book nor DVD will not make you knowledgeable, but if you will work it trough, there is a chance you will surprise many people around!