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Universal Command Guide: For Operating Systems

Format: Hardcover
Author: Guy Lotgering
ReleaseDate: 15 April, 2002
Publisher: Wiley
Rating:

Not worth the money
Unfortunately the ones the missed are significant (e. This book portends to be a universal command guide, and in all fairness they managed to get a good number of commands in the text.g. UNIX tar, which is universal in UNIX and Linux). I would not recommend this book for someone looking for help in distinguishing the difference in Linux and BSD commands.

my review on this book
i hope they release an updated version of this book with the ones they're missing. The book is amazing, it has all the commands i need, from windows to UNIX, but the downside of this is it doesn't have the HP-UX version. One more thing is the pages of this book are too thin, one false move might cause the page to break. I hope the next release should more physically better. I hope you release a universal database version too. And for all the authors of this book out there. . . keep up the good work.

UCG book in research and teaching

Best part of this book is that if you are familiar with one OS you can now find the similar command in another OS. I had waited a long time for a book that could serve me as "manual pages" for different operating systems. 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.