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Summary: Great Reference
Review: My first UNIX class, the instructor gave this book out. He stated, it was one of the best references he could find. After fumbling around in UNIX, I found myself having the book around as a constant companion. The book is formatted like a dictionary. The commands are on the edge of the page where you can quickly find what you are looking for.
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Summary: No wonder they call this a desktop refernce!
Review: Not being a unix user, I purchased this as a reference to pick up and find the tool/command that I needed to use. It lays out the commands in a simple and easy to follow way (with examples!) explaining the options for the commands.There are chapters on shell scripts that are also quite useful.
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Summary: The best desktop reference on Unix
Review: The O'Reilly Nutshell books are great! I've used them for years and haven't found a bad one yet. The books are meant for users to find 'how do I ....' and get you right down to it. The book is very well laid out giving descriptions of commands and shells as well as chapters on text editing/processing(emacs, vi, sed, etc), text formatting (nroff) and software development (sccs, make). It's not exactly meant as a 'lead the hand' reference if you're just starting to learn Unix. I say for that first try O'Reilly's 'Learning the Unix Operating System'. Once you begin to understand how Unix is put together, Unix In A Nutshell will definitely make more sense to you. For someone who has used Unix for years, I've used this book over and over for just about any flavor of Unix I've come across. I have yet to find a command that I needed that WASN'T in this book. I even recommended this and 'Learning the Unix Operating System' to my husband who wants to learn Unix. This book is well worth the price for the amount of information you get.
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Summary: The best desktop reference on Unix
Review: The O'Reilly Nutshell books are great! I've used them for years and haven't found a bad one yet. The books are meant for users to find 'how do I ....' and get you right down to it. The book is very well laid out giving descriptions of commands and shells as well as chapters on text editing/processing(emacs, vi, sed, etc), text formatting (nroff) and software development (sccs, make). It's not exactly meant as a 'lead the hand' reference if you're just starting to learn Unix. I say for that first try O'Reilly's 'Learning the Unix Operating System'. Once you begin to understand how Unix is put together, Unix In A Nutshell will definitely make more sense to you. For someone who has used Unix for years, I've used this book over and over for just about any flavor of Unix I've come across. I have yet to find a command that I needed that WASN'T in this book. I even recommended this and 'Learning the Unix Operating System' to my husband who wants to learn Unix. This book is well worth the price for the amount of information you get.
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Summary: A real desktopper! (not bookshelver)
Review: This a REAL desktop reference guide. I bought it about two years ago. Actually, I bought two books simultaneously - another one is twice larger, with more information. The result: I opened the big one just several times, whereas this one is being used literally daily. A must for a UNIX user!
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Summary: Excellent Reference
Review: This book is a great reference. Information about commands, shells, editors, make files, etc. pretty much whatever is there. There is "just enough" information here to help you get done whatever it is you're trying to do. Definitely not for beginners though since before you try to do anything in UNIX, you should understand how unix works but thats not the purpose of this book anyway.
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Summary: A must have book for new and experienced users.
Review: This book is a hands on walk through the UNIX operating system. Each command is listed along with all option for each command.
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Summary: A must have book for new and experienced users.
Review: This book is a hands on walk through the UNIX operating system. Each command is listed along with all option for each command.
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Summary: Exactly what it claims to be
Review: This book is an essential desk reference for the Unix admin, especially for the admin with diminished short term memory. Can't remember a shell script or console command syntax? Look in here. Need a basic template for a complicated script? Look in here. Differences between the various shells? Look in here. Not meant to be a tutorial, just, like it says, a desktop quick reference. In that respect, this book excels, and EVERY Unix/Linux/Solaris admin who doesn't already have it should buy it today.
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Summary: All Time Favourite Book Of Unix Lovers
Review: This book is perhaps the most favourite one for unix lovers... from beginners to advance users. It gives practical details about all the different commands used in unix which are indeed very helpful to all level of unix users. It also has a nice overview of unix and its origins. Plus point in this book is that i have found none of the details or commands to be obsolete, And even after 7 years of unix administration, I still cherish this book as a jewel in my unix resource collection.
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