UNIX Made Easy

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Summary: This book preserved my sanity
Review: This is a marvelous book for beginners. You get step-by-step instructions for the usual stuff, and easily readable and very informative chapters on some things not usually covered in beginner books, like network considerations and using awk. I would have gone insane were it not for this book.

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Summary: Great Tutorial For The Absolute Beginner
Review: This is an excellent tutorial for the absolute beginner. It assumes that you know nothing about UNIX, but that you do have access to a UNIX box and that you will be able to spend some time in front of it each day practicing the exercises given in the book. Most of the book is concerned with the command line, but you will be given a few exercises to do in regards to the X Windows system. The basic UNIX utilities are covered simply and adequately, the file system is covered in detail, as is text editing with vi. Near the end of the book, you are given some Bourne shell scripting exercises which are helpful in system configuration. this book does not cover installation and configuration and is definitely not intended for anyone with even a small measure of real-world experience with UNIX. Is basically a tutorial and nothing more, but will get you up to speed if you are 100% new to this OS.

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Summary: great for begginers
Review: this is the ultimate self-teaching tool for beggining Unix users. I too took the class long ago in a far away land. Mr. Muster is an excellent teacher

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Summary: A great tutorial
Review: This text is a wonderful way to actually learn how to do unix. It told me what to type, explained what was going on, and gave me enough repitition to actually master the skills. The author anticipated my questions and mistakes. In less that a week I have become quite solid -- I can not only use the commands, I can solve problems. The text is not a cook book. It is a guided examination that I used at the terminal. Although not a reference book, the command summaries at the ends of the chapters made finding answers easy. The mix of hands on guidance and detailed explanations of the underlying structure was perfect for us.

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Summary: A star in the darkness
Review: UNIX as a cammand line program is mostly like a dark night and this book for sure is like a bright star helps you find your way. It is so easy that a beginner can read and learn about UNIX and have fun running and palying with it. I give it 4 star because it sometimes has too much explaination about an easy issue and miss some more basic information which can help the reader get stronger with UNIX. It is still the only book teaches you and be sure won't waiste your time. It gives you confidence with UNIX. Another weekness of this book is some wrong commands or exercises that can be fixed in 3rd edition. The nice thing with this book is being a hands on book. Do not read this book in a library or away from your computer. Put it on your desk with your computer because for every pages in this book, you need to practice it. It will walk you through the Master of Masters.