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Summary: I love this book
Review: I do not know that much about computers. But this book has opened a new world for me. It's easy to read and understand. It's easy to learn. This book should have been released years ago.
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Summary: UCG book in research and teaching
Review: I had waited a long time for a book that could serve me as "manual pages" for different operating systems.Best part of this book is that if you are familiar with one OS you can now find the similar command in another OS. Afterall, when learning commands of a new OS the most difficult part (atleast for myself) was to ask the right questions - what can you do in this OS? I've used the book to find right commands for optimizing my Linux environment for heavy Matlab use and the book has served it's purpose well.
Because of good indexing of the book I feel that it is also good material for university students, especially for Operating systems courses. There is one bad thing about the book, though. It is extremely big and heavy - and will probably ruin your bookbag ;D
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Summary: UCG book in research and teaching
Review: I had waited a long time for a book that could serve me as "manual pages" for different operating systems. Best part of this book is that if you are familiar with one OS you can now find the similar command in another OS. Afterall, when learning commands of a new OS the most difficult part (atleast for myself) was to ask the right questions - what can you do in this OS? I've used the book to find right commands for optimizing my Linux environment for heavy Matlab use and the book has served it's purpose well.
Because of good indexing of the book I feel that it is also good material for university students, especially for Operating systems courses. There is one bad thing about the book, though. It is extremely big and heavy - and will probably ruin your bookbag ;D
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Summary: Stop the press. The search is over!
Review: I have been buying command books for quite some time now, and i must say that nothing comes even close to what this book has to offer. Every command, every option and a complete cross-reference table, i am amazed. It doesn't matter wheter your'e coming from the microsoft, novell or unix side, this book covers it ALL. My personal recommendation is: BUY, is well worth the money.
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Summary: A "must have"
Review: I have got my hands on one of the first copies of Universal Command Guide - and - I'm really really impressed!!
I can understand why this book havent been out before and why it has taken Guy Lotgering and the UCG team 3 years to write it!
Both in my former work as a IT manager and my work today as area manager and projectleader I see a great use of the book. Even if I'm a 99,9% Windows user, every now and then it happens that I need to do something at a Netware or Unix, and even Mac machine and until now it has been a lot of guesses what command to use. But now - with UCG I can take the Cross Reference, see what my "normal" command name is in Windows and directly see what the command is in the other OS. If I need to know switches and so on I switch to the command part and there it is!
I also see a great need for it in my "normal" Windows enviroment - I found a lot of commands and switches that is useful but until now I dont have had a clue that they existed - or what they do!
So my advice - BUY IT! It's realy worth the money!
I have only find one disadvantage - I would really want to have it with me when I travel to my customers - and in that case I have to "work out" to get more muscles first!! It's HEAVY!
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Summary: Every Command, this is it! Stop looking!
Review: I have never seen a more comprehensive command book ever, i doubt there is anything out there that even comes close to what this book really is. Every command, every option, cross reference between operating systems, what more do we need??? I have been bying books about operating systems and hoped that there would be some kind of command description in them, the result have been poor until now. Universal Command Guide for Operating Systems covers all of my needs and are by far better than i hoped for when i bought the book. My advise to all of you is to invest in this item, it will help you in your work, it will entertain you when you're not working and it will amaze you at any time.
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Summary: I am truely amazed.
Review: In the ways this book could accually help me to easy learn Unix from my past experience of windows. I have tried befor to understand unix like i do windows but it has seemed so diffucult to learn that advanced text based system. I have feelt trapped
in the windows systems i used. This book have opened that barrier for me, its so easy to understand now when i compare a windows command that i know, to a unix command who have the same functionality! Unix is still advanced, but this book was one great step for me to recycle my window knowlage to Unix using the awesome cross-reference. I wanna thank the author and the team who came up with this idea of book. It has really helpt me alot.
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Summary: Fantastic Tool
Review: It is like having every man page for every unix command in one book. It is incredible! This book has absolutely every Solaris and Linux command that I have ever used and there are hundreds I did not even know existed. I can't judge AIX or OpenBSD because I don't use them but it looks complete. It even includes every switch/option for the commands. The descriptions are very clear and the examples are great. I definately recommend that you buy this book. I don't care much about the cross-referencing, I will probably never see a Novell server and we have plenty of Microssoft techies to handle any Microsoft issues but it is nice to know that it is there.
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Summary: Best UNIX Command book ever
Review: It is like having every man page for every unix command in one book. It is incredible! This book has absolutely every Solaris and Linux command that I have ever used and there are hundreds I did not even know existed. I can't judge AIX or OpenBSD because I don't use them but it looks complete. It even includes every switch/option for the commands. The descriptions are very clear and the examples are great. I definately recommend that you buy this book. I don't care much about the cross-referencing, I will probably never see a Novell server and we have plenty of Microssoft techies to handle any Microsoft issues but it is nice to know that it is there.
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Summary: Fantastic Tool
Review: Recieved a copy of this book 2-3 days ago and a new world has opened for me. Everything seems so simple with this book. It's easy to read the book and easy to find what you are looking for. This book saves many hours of looking for information and helps you doing a better job.
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