Designed for first-time and experienced users, this book describes the UNIX® programming environment and philosophy in detail. Readers will gain an understanding not only of how to use the system, its components, and the programs, but also how these fit into the total environment.
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Designed for first-time and experienced users, this book describes the UNIX®programming environment and philosophy in detail. Readers will gain an understanding not only of how to use the system, its components, and the programs, but also how these fit into the total environment.
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Designed for first-time and experienced users, this book describes the UNIX® programming environment and philosophy in detail.Readers will gain an understanding not only of how to use the system, its components, and the programs, but also how these fit into the total environment.
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71 of 71 people found the following review helpful
By Roy Gordon
Format:Paperback
How is it that a book from 1984 based on a legacy Unix system, describing some tools that no one would now use, can still not only be in print but actually recommended?
In introducing you to the Unix system, from simple shell commands, to shell scripts, to awk and sed programming, and to Unix applications programming, not to mention the best introduction to lex and yacc, the authors develop real applications and teach you how to THINK in Unix terms: develop small components that fit and interact with each other to build larger and larger and more complex applications.
But it's more than just thinking in Unix terms: it's how to structure and approach programs and scripts no matter what environment you are in.
Stevenson's _Advanced Programming In the Unix Environment_ is an excellent book for coverage. I have it too. But _The Unix Programming Environment_ is a book for developing your software mentality in a way that no other book that I've read even approaches.
After 20 years as a Unix programmer, including kernel development of several Unix operating systems, this book still remains on my shelf.
41 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Elsewhere on Amazon I reviewed Kernighan's "Elements of Programming Style." To quote one paragraph from that review -
Brian Kernighan has co-authored three books almost essential to learning our craft, this volume, "Software Tools" and "The Unix Programming Environment". "Elements of Programming Style" spells out the fundamental rules, "Software Tools" shows you how to apply them to a number of simple projects and extends the rules to software design and finally "The Unix Programming Environment" shows you how to use them in an operating system designed to reward you for your effort.
This volume starts with a short, excellent preface detailing some of the early history of Unix and explaining the structure of the book and the philosophy behind it . The preface states "Our goal in this book is to communicate the UNIX programming philosophy ... throughout runs the themes of combining programs and of using programs to build programs." It delivers on that goal.
The book then follows with a series of chapters that start with basic shell commands and then pipes before branching out into shell programming and going on to explore useful Unix tools such as grep, sed, awk, C, the standard libraries, make, yacc and lex through a series of small useful programs culminating in a small calculator language called `hoc' - a useful calculator and easily extensible.
While most might feel that grep, sed, awk and shell programming have been replaced by tools such as Perl and Python these early chapters provide a good grounding in Unix programming and remind newer users of the power and usefulness of these simple Unix tools.
Briefly covered in a final chapter are some of the document preparation tools based on troff - the macro packages ms, mm and of course the man package used for Unix man pages along with tbl and eqn for tables and mathematical equations respectively.
In totality it provides an excellent grounding in writing good, workable software for Unix. The writing is clear and concise, the volume well laid out, the examples are in the main useful, though a few rely on multiple users of the one machine, not as common now that Linux and Sun have made a Unix computer more of a desktop machine than a minicomputer.
This is a classic book and I would recommend it to all starting out Unix programming, regardless of your experience with other operating systems. Ignore it's age, computer books are rarely this good and almost never this timeless.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
By ivar
Format:Paperback
Albeit this book was published in 1984 and when I started learning UNIX some ten years later, many of minor details were already a bit out-of-date, I believe that it will still be a marvel for those who work on modern UNIX/Linux systems, since the details are ever changing, the commands may differ from system to system, but the philosophy behind the UNIX technology stays the same, and this is what this book is all about. Written in a great style, resembling to that of another Kernighan's famous book "C programming language", compact and clear, this book is a true classic, one of (unfortunately) very few examples of long living technical books in our rapidly changing world. In short, it's highly recommended for those of fledging programmers or sysadmins who feel that UNIX is too cumbersome and messy to understand; it suits well for beginners and intermediates, who want to feel at UNIX as at home. And don't be scared with some out-of-date details: they are really minor... view them as UNIX history ;-)
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
A tad outdated, but mostly great
So long as you take the effort to make sure what you're reading isn't outdated it's awesome. That said, about 95% of the material is still valid, and it explains the UNIX system... Read more
Published 22 days ago by student
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a really good book for me
A friend of mine recommend this book to me. I enjoy reading this book because it explains Unix very clear to a beginner like me. I would recommend this book to my friends.
Published 2 months ago by mike
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential reading for sys admins
While it was written in 1984 - it cover the roots of unix when it was a simpler operating system. Thus, there are basics covered I feel are not easy to glean nowadays - details of... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Charisse
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Book
Only Bought It is as a Classic To have it on my shelf but When I look it up It feels AweSome Just AweSOme
Published 4 months ago by Shayanrafizadeh
5.0 out of 5 stars
A timeless read
No matter what, if you are a UNIX ( or Linux ) user this is mandatory reading. This is the book you wish you've read _before_ your first contact with a UNIX system ... Read more
Published 5 months ago by gnemmi
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very, very hard book to read...
If anyone has read this book from cover to cover, I would think that they are outliers in either intelligence/tenacity or both. This review is for someone more average. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jake Gay
3.0 out of 5 stars
A required reading for all unix users
This book should be a required reading not only for beginning Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix programmers, but also for most unix users and all system administrators. Read more
Published on October 29, 2009 by Akop Pogosian
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Unix Reference book
If are Unix or Linux geek, this book is for you...as a refernce book, specially for novice....ed
Published on June 27, 2007 by Edgard Padilla
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE GOLD STANDARD!
With the growth of MacOS X and programmers looking how to take better advantage of the UNIX/Darwin/Mach underpinnings of the system, there is a great need for something to educate... Read more
Published on September 2, 2006 by Scott Barman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book on the foundations of the UNIX environment
In spite of its advanced age, this book is still relevant and explains many topics better than much newer books on the various flavors of UNIX. Read more
Published on February 15, 2006 by calvinnme
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