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Loading... Unix Power Tools, Third Editionby Shelley Powers (otherwise under Jerry Peek)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Not really useful as a reference, but good to flip through when you're bored. Nice odds and ends. You'll pick up a few things. (  ) dbday | Oct 11, 2009 |  Very useful (  ) sfisk | Sep 4, 2008 | My Unix is a little lopsided: I don't know much about security or administration, but I can edit the hell out of plain text files. I'm a programmer, not an admin, so that's what I spend my time doing. I learned Unix from this book, writing shell scripts and one-liners to automate my work. I recommend this book to anyone who intends to Actually Do Stuff on the Unix command line. (  ) olooney | Apr 14, 2008 | I prefer the first edition of this book to any of the subsequent editions. A lot gets lost in the later editions. (  )1  jhevelin | Jun 10, 2007 | One of the best, if not the best, computer technical books I have ever read. Dozens, if not hundreds, of paragraph to chapter size how-tos for Unix. Anything you can think of, this book will show you. ( ) wfzimmerman | May 9, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 067979073X, Paperback)UNIX documentation typically comes in one of two flavors: at one extreme, light and fluffy books that assume you are a terrified PC user who needs to learn enough UNIX to get by at work, or massive and obscure tomes written for gurus, and indistinguishable from the most incomprehensible man pages.This UNIX book, in contrast, assumes that you are basically a competent and intelligent individual, and that you are sufficiently secure in your self-image at work that you simply want to get things done, simply, by taking advantage of the real power of UNIX without having to learn "man-speak". It doesn't skimp on clear introductions and overviews, but the focus of the book is on practical examples of the most useful UNIX commands and utilities. A minor quibble: the enclosed CD-ROM is a bit heavy with utilities and packages that are probably already resident on your UNIX system (like Perl, Emacs, pbmplus), but it does contain scripts that are used throughout the book and that you'd probably rather not type in. Highly recommended for anyone who really wants to use UNIX, and not just cower or pose. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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