Classic Shell Scripting

Learning the UNIX Operating System, Fifth Edition

Learning the vi Editor (6th Edition)

Essential System Administration, Third Edition

Solaris

Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Arnold Robbins
ReleaseDate: 01 October, 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

Watch your options!
Yes it is pricey but you're getting precisely what you have been paying for. It is good book, decent reference but if you like I'm just starting out get "UNIX Essentials and UNIX Core" DVD course. I found this book to be great but in the same time I found the DVD course to be unmatched. The ability to sit down and listen and watch and follow is can not be substituted with a book. If you are more on economy side, I found that there's no economy as I'm now of the subjects that with book like that, or with any other book it would take me forever to come up.
I read this book (along with other dozens) in a train to refresh and to get slightly different prospective however the TRAINING is with DVD as it pays back way faster.
I give these book 5 stars because it is nice book, and comparing apple to apples it is one good, useful book.

A 'must have' reference!
UNIX operating system users simply must have this reference. Arnold Robbins' UNIX IN A NUTSHELL, 4TH EDITION defines what UNIX means in a changing world where there is no standard-bearer, covering common parts of the leading Unix-like operating systems, how to understand and locate commands which work across versions, and how to use tools which have become a 'part' of Unix even though they don't ship with the operating system, from CVs and GNU Make to GDB, curl and wget. .

DE FACTO UNIX


Robbins, begins by covering Solaris 10, the latest version of the SVR4 operating system from Sun Microsystems, "GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X. Are you a Unix user, programmer or system administrator? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Arnold Robbins, has written an outstanding 4th edition of a book that presents the broader state of Unix in today's world. Then, he revises and reorganizes the Unix Commands in order to cover the three systems. The author continues by covering Bash, ksh93, and tcsh. In addition, he covers the popular Bash shell, along with the 1988 and 1993 versions of ksh. The author also examines the widely-used tcsh shell instead of the original Berkeley. Then, the author looks at the package management programs, which are used for the program installation on popular GNU/Linux systems.
Next, he discusses GNU Emacs Version 21. Then, the author covers the vi and ex text editors. The author continues by covering GNU sed. In addition, he covers the awk programming language. The author also provides an introduction to source code management systems. Then, he looks at CVS. Next, the author discusses the Subversion version control system. Then, he focuses on GNU Make. The author continues by covering GDB debugger. Finally, he describes how to write a manual page.

In particular, it's important to cover in this most excellent book, both commercial variants, and those where source code for the system and the utilities are freely available. Furthermore, the commands covered by the current POSIX standard form the core of author's presentation here.
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