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Unix: The Textbook [Paperback]

Syed Mansoor Sarwar (Author), Robert Koretsky (Author), Syed Aqeel Sarwar (Author)
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UNIX: A Textbook assumes that the reader has no background in UNIX. It carefully blends important UNIX concepts, like inter-process communication and I/O redirection, with shell commands to enhance understanding of both. Chapters are organized so readers focus on a small set of related topics. The book begins by providing a "UNIX Quick Start" for readers who want to immediately start using the book as a reference and begin working with UNIX. Then, the book tours the UNIX application interface, guiding readers through operating system utilities. The second edition of this book also includes additional coverage of UNIX software development tools. This book is designed for operating system programmers who want to familiarize themselves with the UNIX environment. Knowledge of OS concepts is needed for this book, but no prior knowledge or experience of UNIX itself is required.

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UNIX: A Textbook assumes that the reader has no background in UNIX. It carefully blends important UNIX concepts, like inter-process communication and I/O redirection, with shell commands to enhance understanding of both. Chapters are organized so readers focus on a small set of related topics. The book begins by providing a "UNIX Quick Start" for readers who want to immediately start using the book as a reference and begin working with UNIX. Then, the book tours the UNIX application interface, guiding readers through operating system utilities. The second edition of this book also includes additional coverage of UNIX software development tools. This book is designed for operating system programmers who want to familiarize themselves with the UNIX environment. Knowledge of OS concepts is needed for this book, but no prior knowledge or experience of UNIX itself is required.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best !!, Dec 15 2003
This review is from: UNIX: The Textbook (Paperback)
I have been teaching UNIX for over 15 years. I have used many introductory books but this is by far the best. The authors seem gifted with the ability to explain difficult topics with ease.

Some of the salient features of the book that I particularly like are:
a. Topics are arranged in a very nice, ascending order of difficulty
b. The book is very comprehensive and I often use it
c. The book discusses important OS concepts not found in any other introductory book on UNIX
d. Shell scripting is explained very well and, unlike many other books in programming, ALL of the programs in the book actually work!
e. Nice intorductory chapter on X Window System

I look forward to more introductory books on computer science by the author team.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is excellet!, Nov 2 2000
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This book is wonderful, it is a very usefull text/reference book. I never had any experience before with Unix. After reading this book, I found it to be very educational and entertaining. I give it two thumbs up. A++
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5.0 out of 5 stars author's correction, Sep 5 2000
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Bob Koretsky (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: UNIX: The Textbook (Paperback)
In my previous review, I stated that the book is over 800 pages in length; in reality, it is 677 pages of text with a more than 70 page command dictionary , as well as a glossary. I hope this didn't mislead anyone.
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