UNIX: The Textbook

by Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Robert Koretsky

The Textbook is appropriate for those just starting out with UNIX, as well as skilled UNIX users who need a comprehensive reference. This second edition continues to explain both the how-to and the why of working in the UNIX environment while guiding the reader through operating-system utilities including process, file storage, and I/O management.

Genres: Reference, Computer Science

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.