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Title: Unix in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference for SVR4 and Solaris 7 (3rd Edition) by Arnold Robbins ISBN: 1-56592-427-4 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (40 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A concise, though brief, quick reference for your desktop
Comment: While this book - as stated in its title - serves its designated purpose as a "Quick Reference" pretty well, be well aware of its limitations.

If you're not yet familiar with UNIX, make sure to work your way through one of the better introductions to UNIX. My personal favorite is Steven R. Levine's "UNIX for Dummies; despite the somewhat derogatory title of this books series (or maybe because of it), it is an easy read, and provides the UNIX newbie with a solid understanding of the overall concepts of UNIX, as well as the use of the most common commands.

Don't expect too much from "UNIX in a Nutshell". While it comes in handy whenever short term memory proves insufficient to recall certain command options and the likes, this reference only provides a terse abstract for each command.

Even though these abstracts in most cases are a little bit more elaborate than the "usage" section of the man pages, you will still have to check the man pages if you need a more elaborate explanation of the command or its options.

On the other hand, this reference will always be handy when you're working on a system that does not have man pages installed, as well as for quickly looking up other information.

Although this book does not, can not, and does not claim to be a "complete" quick reference, it deserves a place on most system adminstrator's, system programmer's and advanced user's desk.

Rating: 5
Summary: Concise reference for Unix basics
Comment: You have a general section on shells and then seperate sections for Bourne|Korn and another one for the C shell. There are seperate sections on pattern matching, the Emacs editor, Vi (an invaluable resource in and of itself), Ex editor, Sed editor, and Awk (scripting language). Then there's a text formatting section containing information on Nroff, Troff, macros, and preprocessors. Then for developers there are sections on SCCS, make, debugging, and RCS. And perhaps most importantly there is a fairly exhaustive section on Unix commands and switches.

So this one handy dandy reference covers most of the major aspects that developers and dba's need. This is not the guide for system administrators but for the rest of us this one reference fills most of the bill. I have two copies. One I keep at the office and the other stays at home with me. Now i'm not gonna say that it's the end all and be all of unix but as a quick reference it's indispensible.

Buy it.

Rating: 5
Summary: Without a doubt THE best Solaris reference guide.
Comment: Let me just start out by saying that I have taught Solaris in the past to several international companies and highly respectable universities. I always provide each student with a copy of this book because I put that much value into it.

There is no other Solaris book out there that covers the most often-used Solaris commands with such intricate detail and organization as this book does. The only drawback to this book is that the author stopped at Solaris 7. Considering that right now Solaris is up to version 9, I so very much wish that Mr. Robbins continued this book into Solaris 8 and 9.

The beautiful part about Solaris, however, is that even Solaris 8 and 9 contain most if not all of the commands that are listed in this book, so it still becomes an absolute necessity for any Solaris administrator. The complete chapter on vi also will be a welcome sight to many as well the separate chapters on the different operating system shells.

I must warn that this is NOT a book for those who are looking to get started in Solaris. This is purely a reference manual. In effect, this book is Solaris on-line help (man pages) in a beautifully organized compendium of the essential Solaris commands.

If you are a Solaris administrator, regardless of whether you're a novice or an "expert", you need to have this book at your desk at all times. It's completely indispenable.

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