A Practical Guide to the UNIX System

by Mark G. Sobell

An ideal tutorial and reference for both novice and experienced UNIX users, this new edition brings Sobell's bestseller up-to-date in several key areas, including graphical user interfaces and networking with electronic mail.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Technical

832 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)