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A Practical Guide to the UNIX System (3rd Edition)
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Author: Mark G. Sobell
List Price: $64.00
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ISBN: 0805375651
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (09 August, 1994)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 34,861
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Still my favorite reference
I agree with many of the reviewers (esp rpclark), in saying that this is a wonderful introductory book. I can further add that I have owned this book for 5+ years and it is still the reference I refer to most often. I believe, a particular strength of Sobell's book is that it was useful to a newbie and is still useful at the sys admin level.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This One Excels Above Most!!!
A user of FreeBSD now for a year, the lights came on with this
book. Certainly, all unix books have something different to offer...this one excels above most. I agree with one of the other posts here that states "...it assumes that you are an intelligent reader", and "doesn't humor you with cute language and humor". However, I don't agree with another post that states that this book "is difficult". I am reading the 1989 copyright of this book, ISBN 0-8053-0243-3. The book does get down to the grit of things, but feeds it to you in a sequential manner. I don't like having to sift through paragraphs of what the author thinks is funny. In contrast to the "Unix Shell Programming" - Kochan & Wood, I found this book to be *to the point* on this topic. "Unix Shell Programming" is one of my favorites, but it takes a while to get to actual script writing. In chapter eight in this book, THE BOURNE SHELL, Sobell gets right to the point--after just 3 minutes of reading this chapter I starting writing "working" scripts---honestly. I keep this one at arms length from the keyboard. If you don't like being talked to like a "Dummy",
pick this one up! Just Have Fun!!!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not the best introductory book
This book was a required text for the Unix course I am enrolled in and I found it to be a very difficult book to learn Unix. The author attempts to explain shell scripting, for example, by providing the script and then explaining what the script does in paragraph form. This made the chapters on bourne, c and korn shell very difficult to learn from. Try Ellie Quigley's book "Unix Shells by Example" for learning shell scripting. Quigley provides plenty of examples to learn from and provides step by step explanations on shell scripting.Sobell does a good job Chapter 7, networking. Most of this chapter is explaining concepts and not teaching and explaining Unix commands. I would not recommend this book if you are learning Unix. I think there are books out there do that do a better job to those new to Unix. Given a choice, I preferred the following: "Learning the Unix OS" by Oreilly. "Unix Shells by Example" by Quigley, which I highly recommend
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