SUMMARY: Looking for a UNIX book

Subject: SUMMARY: Looking for a UNIX book
From: "Donald J. Plummer" <donp -at- BGNET -dot- BGSU -dot- EDU>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 09:26:48 -0500

Thank you to all who responded to my query about good UNIX books. Several
of you asked for a summary, so here are the recomendations I received.

The most often recommended book was:

Title: UNIX in a Nutshell
Author(s): Daniel Gully
Publisher: O'Reilly & Assoc.
ISBN: 1-56592001-5


Other recommended general reference books were:

Title: UNIX for Dummies
Author(s): John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young
Publisher: IDG Books
ISBN: 0-76450130-5

Title: Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 hours
Author(s): Dave Taylor & James C. Armstrong, Jr.
Publisher: Sams
ISBN: 0-67231107-0

Title: An Introduction to UNIX, with X and the Internet
Author(s): Paul S. Wang
Publisher: Pws Publ. Co.
ISBN: 0-53494768-9

Title: Learning the UNIX Operating System
Author(s): Grace Todino, Jong Strang, & Jerry Peek
Publisher: O'Reilly & Assoc.
ISBN: 1-56592060-0

Title: UNIX Power Tools
Author(s): Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loudkides
Publisher: O'Reilly & Assoc.
ISBN: 1-56592260-3


More advanced books, specifically covering shell script programming and the
commands 'awk' and 'sed':

Title: The UNIX Programming Environment
Author(s): Brian W. Kernighan
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0-1393768-1X

Title: sed & awk
Author(s): Dale Dougherty & Arnold Robbins
Publisher: O'Reilly & Assoc.
ISBN: 1-56592225-5

Title: The AWK Programming Language
Author(s): Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-2010798-1X

Title: UNIX Shell Programming Language
Author(s): Rod Manis
Publisher: Sams
ISBN: 0-67222497-6
(This title is currently out of print, according to Amazon.com)

Again, thanks to all who responded.

don

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Donald J. Plummer
Department of English--Program in
Scientific and Technical Communication
225 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio USA
419-372-7242 <donp -at- bgnet -dot- bgsu -dot- edu>

We are often unable to tell people what
they need to know, because they want
to know something else.
--George MacDonald

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