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Title: Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours (3rd Edition) by Dave Taylor ISBN: 0-672-32127-0 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 20 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Really good to get you started on command line basics
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: For newbies only
Comment: This book is VERY basic. This is definately not the book you want if you are already somewhat familiar with Unix. This book is geared more towards someone that has never even logged in to a Unix box.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself UNIX System Administration in 24 Hours by Dave Taylor ISBN: 0672323982 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 11 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) by Sriranga Veeraraghavan ISBN: 0672323583 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: UNIX for Dummies by John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young ISBN: 0764504193 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 09 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Unix (The Complete Idiot's Guide) by Bill Wagner ISBN: 0789718057 Publisher: Alpha Communications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Learning UNIX Operating System, Fifth Edition by Jerry Peek, Grace Todino-Gonguet, John Strang ISBN: 0596002610 Publisher: O'Reilly Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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