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Summary: Excellent
Review: I have been doing computer programming from six years. I have been most of the time a windows and GUI guy. But lately I have been using Unix extensively.I bought this book 8 months back and I cant thank the authors and SAMs enough for this great book.The title might sound silly, but the essence is 'Unix in 24, one hour sessions'. Unix can be very intimidating for a beginner. You dont even know what to learn. In my case, this book helped a lot. Highlight of this book is its chapter on vi editor. It is the best example and tutorial on vi I have ever seen. As you go through vi features along with the author, you will get a sense of purpose and orientation for each and every command in vi. The first chapter tells us the history of unix and different flavours of unix. From there the every important feature is explained in simple, concise manner. Telnet, ftp, c shell, basic shell programming, file ownership and permissions etc are explained very well. The only draw back is a missing command reference. The book has a quick one page command reference at the beginning of the book, which you can tear out. But for a regular programmer, this is not enough. For reference, I have supplemented this book with 'Unix Complete'. Anyway, at [price] this book is all worth it. This book is going to be with be forever.
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Summary: Absolute best introductory UNIX book
Review: I have taught UNIX at the college and professional level using several different books, but none of them were right for an introductory class. This one is. If you have a UNIX reference book you don't understand, get this one. Work through it cover to cover, and you'll have a good enough command of UNIX to use any other book out there. Dave Taylor's writing style is fun and easy to read, but he doesn't "talk down" to you either. His enthusiasm for UNIX as an operating system shines through. He supplies lots of simple exercises to build confidence and experience, even in the notorious editor vi. The only caveat I would warn someone about is, Dave heavily favors bash, the "Bourne Again Shell." You might want to make sure you have this shell available before purchasing the book.
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Summary: Excellent intro to UNIX
Review: I just entered grad school in particle physics, knowing nothing about UNIX (which I soon found was a hindrance) and this book got me going fast!! It is lucid, contains few errors (that I could find), and within days I was able to move around in UNIX quite easily. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wants to get familiar with UNIX and doesn't have a lot of time.
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Summary: Helped me become a system administrator!
Review: I knew no UNIX when I got this book. It was so helpful in getting me started in the UNIX world that I never had to graduate to the O'Reilly books after reading it. Instead the use of man pages and google was enough to supplement this book when I needed to do more serious stuff. (I often find searching for stuff on google to be the quickest way to debug difficult problems!) So if you need to get started in the world of UNIX, get this book!
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Summary: Solid read.
Review: I read this book in under 24 hours, and as the author recommended, I emailed him to tell him that I had managed to get over the material in that time. He emailed me back and asked me to write him a review on Amazon, so here I am. I was impressed with the book. I read the older 2nd Edition but it was mostly still relevant for a Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" user. It was a thorough introduction to the Unix sub-system. The only chapers I had trouble with were the one on programming. I found these a little too advanced for me since I have absolutely no experience in programming. Plus, Panther users will find that they need to install Apple's XCode to get the C compiler to work. But the rest of the book is really very good and so I strongly recommended it to anyone who wants to explore their Mac (assuming you are running OS X). Thanks Dave! BKB.
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Summary: Incomplete and Not Well Organized
Review: I think this book has most of the information in it you need when you start out, however the way it is organized was not to my liking. I would have liked to have seen it with just a little bit more reference material. Some lists of all the options for this or that command, etc. I do admit though that the permisssions chapter had some great examples. All the chapters have examples.
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Summary: Visit Our TYU24 Web Site
Review: If you'd like to learn more about this book, I recommend you check out our online site for "Teach Yourse Unix in 24 Hours"
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Summary: Simply a great book
Review: No book can cover everything. However, what the authors attempt to cover in this book is done very well. They are not interested in showing you how smart they are as SOOO many technical manuals are. The authors give you a quick explaination of a topic then SHOW you the topic is action (very effective). Again, not everything is covered. You won't find a lot on shell scripts. However, what is there will allow you to understand some of the other books that are dedicated to this topic. They cover what they say they will and do it well. Definitely a five-star book!
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Summary: Gotta have for new users!
Review: Recently tasked with learning UNIX within a short peiod of time, I happened accross this book.Previously I had no UNIX expeience. Now , however, only ten lessons in I am well on my way and am impressed with the easy read and excellent source of information. I have already ordered another book in this line. A must for new users with little or no experience.
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Summary: Really good to get you started on command line basics
Review: Target Audience
People who have a need to learn how to work with Unix at the command level. Contents
This book is a hands-on tutorial on the Unix operating system divided up into 24 lessons. The book contains the following chapters: What Is This Unix Stuff?; Getting Onto The System And Using The Command Line; Moving About The File System; Listing Files And Managing Disk Usage; Ownership And Permissions; Creating, Moving, Renaming, And Deleting Files And Directories; Looking Into Files; Filters And Piping; Wildcards And Regular Expressions; An Introduction To The vi Editor; Advanced vi Tricks, Tools, And Techniques; An Overview Of The emacs Editor; Introduction To Command Shells; Advanced Shell Interaction; Shell Programming Overview; Slicing And Dicing Command Pipe Data; Job Control; Printing In The Unix Environment; Searching For Information And Files; Archives And Backups; Communicating With E-mail; Using telnet, ssh, And ftp; C Programming In Unix; Perl Programming In Unix; Working With The Apache Server Review
I'm seriously considering starting to explore the use of Linux as an alternative to using Windows. And fortunately for me, the Linux desktop has evolved to the place where you can use it much like a Windows environment. But like earlier versions of Windows, there is a lot of power if you delve under the graphic layer of the operating system. In Windows, that was DOS. With the Linux, it's the command line interface. If you don't know where to start when you get there, Teach Yourself Unix In 24 Hours will get you off on the right foot. Dave Taylor takes you through a hands-on approach to the basics of maneuvering and manipulating a Unix-style operating system. By working through the examples and exercises, you'll start to grasp the commands that are needed to do the basics. From there, you learn how to string commands together to create scripts that will automate many of your tasks. And that's where the real power starts to come into play. You'll also learn about permissions and ownership of files and directories, which you'll run into with many other systems you may work with during the course of your job. I found this book useful on a number of levels. First of all, it helped me to understand some of the Unix concepts I need to know when I'm working with other departments that use Unix as their base platform. It's also giving me the fundamental knowledge I'll need when I start with my Linux work. Even though I'll be doing a lot of work at the graphical layer, I want to be able to feel confident to go beyond that when I need to. Until I get beyond the basics, this book will stay close at hand in order to figure out what I just did or what I just broke. :-) Conclusion
This is an ideal text for someone who has to work with Unix and doesn't have much, if any, prior experience. The hands-on nature of each lesson will appeal to those who want to learn by doing.
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