A Practical Guide to the UNIX System

by Mark G. Sobell

Includes complete chapters on the Korn Shell, the emacs text editor, and the vi editor Contains a new chapter on Networking with coverage of many network structures and commands as well as detailed instruction on accessing the Internet using archie and gopher, how to transfer files using FTP, and a section on World Wide Web and Mosaic Provides a new chapter on Graphical User Interfaces that discusses GUI components, the X Window System, and using and customizing Motif Examines the make, SCCS, RCS, awk, and sed programming tools Features detailed chapters on the Bourne and C shells with explanations of how to write shell programs (shell scripts) Includes an in-depth chapter on the Korn shell that covers writing shell scripts and advanced concepts including recursion and the coprocess Offers a quick overview of the UNIX system in Chapter 1 Provides coverage of text editing, electronic mail, shell programming, and other applications with examples, exercises, sample screens, and review questions incorporated throughout References 75 of the most frequently used UNIX utilities in Part II Includes clearly marked sections of optional advanced material for experienced UNIX users

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Technical

428 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Mark G. Sobell, author of many best-selling books, including A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sixth Edition, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux, Third EditionA Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Third Edition (all from Prentice Hall), has more than thirty years of experience working with UNIX and Linux. He is the president of Sobell Associates Inc., a consulting firm that designs and builds custom software applications for UNIX and Linux systems and provides training and support.

Mr. Sobell started working with computers part time after high-school where he worked on the Dartmouth Time-sharing system where they developed the BASIC programming language and on IBM OS/360 systems. He started writing when he worked for microcomputer company Cromemco in the late 1970's. He published his first book A Practical Guide to UNIX in 1982 and started Sobell Associates in 1984. He has been writing and consulting ever since.

- http://www.sobell.com/other/bio.html

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's definitely a practical guide. It's a good primer to UNIX shells and shell scripting as well as a pretty good reference - not too basic on the details, yet not too overloaded with stuff for the power user.

[carl theaker · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good primer for all the UNIX basics. I have
the first edition, I'd suggest the a more recent
edition. A good reference to go back and look over
things once in a while.

[Edward · Rating 5 out of 5]

My go to Unix books for years (actually, approaching decades now.) It's the only physical technical book that I still reference frequently.

[Joe Martin]

A Practical Guide to the UNIX System (3rd Edition) by Mark G. Sobell (1994)