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Summary: Useful reference
Review: Awesome technical reference manual, but doesn't provide very much background or overview information. Not for beginners.
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Summary: Yes its like a nut with smaller nut inside
Review: Based on reviews, I thought this will be the only book I will need for Unix Reference, but I was wrong.Its good price for money though. What else you would expect from $...
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Summary: Don't buy it!
Review: Don't buy it: 1. If you don't need to know Unix. 2. If you don't have questions working with Unix :-) 3. If you have perfect memory and remember all Unix commands. Very useful as a reference book. It is a sort of a dictionary in The Unix World, but remember it is a reference book, not a text book.
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Summary: Actually 4+ starts for this one
Review: Excellent unix reference book.For any command that i need to know, I consult this book before I search on the web
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Summary: Mikey likes it, he really really likes it!
Review: Excellent. What can I say? Well, since I have about 970 words to go, I can say a lot. Here goes. You will like this book. As "Nutshell" books go, this one is "chock-full" of informative tidbits and, the most important thing, EASY TO FIND. I'm glad I bought it. The third edition is very good. And now, the bad news (you didn't think I would let O'Reilly get away with this did you?) I have a huge bone to pick with the editor and possibility the author. The problem is, in SEVERAL places, the author states "Solaris Only" on quite a few commands (and parameters to the command). I'm here to tell you, folks, it ain't necessarily so. I use an AIX box at work and I can state for a fact that over 90% (estimated) of the commands that are stated as "Solaris Only" work great in AIX 4.3. Obviously, neither the editors nor the author tested these commands on an AIX machine. It is somewhat annoying but not unbearable. The bottom line is - try every command (and parms) on your machine before you take the author's word on it. Oh - I almost forgot. Mega-kudos to the proofreaders. In three weeks of using this book, I have yet to find a typo. Way to go, Proofers.
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Summary: Perfect book for the desktop:
Review: I am basically a Windows person and when I had to work on Unix, it was hard for me. But I had to learn quickly. I was looking for a quick reference book for all the commands in unix and this had great reviews. Indeed deserving. One book for complete list of commands. Each command is given a detailed explanation and also an example for better and complete understanding. It does not end there; it covers other topics too - vi and other editors, k and c shells, awk programming and other macros. Any Unix person should keep this on his desktop.
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Summary: Great book for Unix intermediates
Review: I bought this book from Amazon and i am happy to say that spending 23 dollars on this book is worth the money. It is definitely not for the people who want to start learning unix, but it is for the people like me who kind of try to remember what was that command which did that or what was the option in grep command which did such and such thing. This book is as the name suggests is a desktop reference which will help you in shell programming. The indexing is one of the best and examples too are given in a nice way. The main drawback of this book is that it does not explain how does the example work. The command and the options are given with an example and brief mention of what it does, but not how it does it. But as i said this book is not for the beginners and so it does score well from my side.
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Summary: Indispensable reference guide!
Review: I had a 1992 copy of this book and just recently found out about the updated version. Wow. This updated version contains most if not all of the information in the old one plus so much more! Once again, this book is probably the best reference book out there about UNIX. This book devotes almost 200 pages alone to commands, along with chapters on the various shells, vi commands, emacs, various text formatting macros, and even a chapter about awk. If you are a UNIX 'geek' or 'wannabe UNIX geek' like me, or just want to know more about UNIX, this book is for you. It's probably not for beginners however. They would be advised to buy "Learning About UNIX" or another good introductory book.
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Summary: Unix in a Nutshel
Review: I love this book. I'm an old mainframe programmer who needed to get up to speed on Unix fast. I have used this book every day for the past year. If I could only have one reference book, this would definately be it.
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Summary: Great BUT ... what about BSD??
Review: I share the general enthusiasm for this book. This is only to register a minor complaint that I don't see mentioned by anybody - Namely, there is no coverage of BSD variants for common commands. Yes the book is billed "for SVR4 and Solaris", but since OReilly no longer offers a separate version for BSD, it makes sense to merge in such content in this new edition. This reflects the real-world situation of BSD UNIXen losing influence in recent years, but by no means dead. Personally, this complaint was sparked when I had to take up some testing on an HP server and I found that this book was no help to me when it comes to wrestling with the completely different syntax of 'ps' to produce some specific info. Any alternatives?
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