UNIX: The Textbook

by Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Robert Koretsky

Guidebook for UNIX use, teaching the how and why of working in the UNIX environment. Text assumes no prior UNIX experience, carefully blending concepts like inter-process communication and I/O redirection to enhance the understanding of both. Includes carefully designed chapter exercises for timely practice of new concepts and commands. Softcover. UNIX (Computer file).

Genres: Reference

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Ietrio · Rating 2 out of 5]

A waste of time and paper. The author pretends to talk about a modern system. Or was it the editor? Anyway, space is wasted on the history of the system. Than space is wasted on text editors. With most space wasted for emacs? Is that a traditional editor? Is it so light you can have it on a rescue disk?

Anyway, the book is terribly dated and only an army of rigid thinking system administrators hardly able to learn new things keeps this book in anyway relevant.

[Jascha · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a disappointment! I was hoping to find something that provides details on the internals of a Unix system while it is nothing but a list of the different Bash commands to list and copy files.