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Summary: A lot of useful info in a small space
Review: A good book is nice, but a good, concise book is a treasure. That's what "UNIX in a Nutshell" is. It's the first place I go for the "five cent tour" of UNIX commands or utilities. The examples are excellent. Highly recommended for intermediate and advanced users.
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Summary: excellent reference
Review: for those crazy VI and EMACS commands, plus the rest of the unix command line, this is a must have, and for the price, you can't beat it!
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Summary: The best reference for experienced users
Review: If you are an experienced user, this is a great reference to keep close by. Better than the man pages because it doesn't scroll off the screen, you can make notes on the pages, and bookmark with Post-it notes. Jam packed with the key knowledge you use all the time.
The command summary is great, with no fluff like those big, useless books you use as a platform for your monitor. I have manuals on awk and sed, but I rarely need to look at them because I can find what I need here. The same is true of the shells, emacs, and vi. It covers the territory well.
Of course, this is not a tutorial book, so you need to know what you are doing to begin with. But if I was stuck on a desert island with a Unix box and only one book, this would be it!
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Summary: Unix man pages put on paper.
Review: If you want to be able to read the man pages away frm your computer, this book is for you. Basically its general unix MAN pages put on page, without all the length bs thats in the computerized version. All the attributes are listed and explained clearly (more clearly than most of the man pages, which I sometimes find to be poorly written or by people too nerdy for their own good). But thats only 1/3 of the book. The other 2/3 is details about each shell, C shell, Korn shell, Bourne shell. It then goes on to discuss things like pattern matching, emacs, troffm sedm awk, make, sccs. And considering this book costs a mere $10 retail its a steal. Especially when computer monitors are not easy on the eyes to read. This is a reference book EVERY unix sys admin needs.
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Summary: If you're a beginner, don't buy this.....yet.
Review: If you're a beginner or even casual user of Unix then steer clear of this book. While the information contained within is excellent, it's more suited towards experienced users as it's not very well explained.Also a major fault is the incredibly poor index. Frankly, it's one of the worst I've ever seen in any computer book. Pathetic. Instead of just indexing the terms, the descriptives should be listed as well. But all is not lost. When you become used to Unix (although I cringe at the title, Unix For Dummies 3rd Edition is a very good starting point), Unix In A Nutshell is a thorough reference. Just don't plan on using the index!
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Summary: Really handy
Review: Most of my development time is spent on Windows. But deployment almost always has been on UNIX. That's when I need to use vi sometimes, make changes to some "make" files, do some basic navigation and file manipulation. The Nutshell book fulfills my needs in that aspect. For advanced shell scripting or awk programming, you need to look elsewhere. But then that is not the purpose of the book anyway.
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Summary: Get started quickly
Review: This is a great reference for beginners. It is billed as a reference for System V and Solaris 2.0 but applies well to most versions of UNIX, even Linux. It is more of a command and function reference than a tutorial, in fact it is NOT a tutorial but with a little practice on a UNIX system you will find this book invaluable. I have O'Reilly books specific to vi, sed and awk, but this one is the main reference I use for looking up command structure. Its the most comprehensive and usable UNIX references I have seen and compares well to the big books that cost a lot more and could prop the wheels on a DC-3. This book in easily carried in an brief case for quick deployment. You can look up things quickly even when folks pop out of the room for a moment, you can look up something and be working away with your newfound information whenthey return and everyone will think you knew it all along. hahaha Great book, highly recommended. I even use it for AIX although mostly for vi, se and awk.
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