Customer Reviews

UNIX Complete

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I needed this book to get up to speed for a course that used UNIX. I now have a good enough knowledge of the system to do simple scripts and a referece at my fingertips.

Everything is explained clearly and quickly.

It's the smartest $20 you can spend ona UNIX book!

This is the the first unix book I bought. I love it a lot. It teaches you the fundamentals of how to use the operating system. With a desktop reference of commands, utilites, and terms you will refer to this book for years. You are getting a robust amount of information of unix for your dollar.

This is the first computer book ever to make me cheerful reading it. The book proceeds slowly and carefully through the essentials of Unix. No flummery, no witchcraft.

Everyone with a MS-DOS background who is starting out into Linux , as I am, should start with this book.

This book is a great book if you're starting out UNIX, which it was for me. However, it doesn't show you much in the way of UNIX's programming enviroments for other languages (C, C++, etc.). But because of the really nice reference that this book supplies, it'll most likely stay on my shelf for a very long time.

And one more note - the author tends to be biased towards SCO Unix (now part of Caldera) and will, from time to time, incorporate SCO-only commands.

This book, I have found, is not especially conducive to reading straight through. However it serves my purposes as a refence tool quite well. The last 500 pages are nothing but explanations of the [most] commands available in UNIX. There are very few examples in this area of the book though. Overall, page for page, I think you'll find this book gives you the most quantitative and qualitative information for your buck.

This book explains more in layman's terms to get the hang of the Unix lingos. Highly recommended.

It is well done UNIX book and one can pick much of useful info out of it. It offers good insight into many important issues and teaches proper terminology. I wish this book would be on the list in my college days. For more practical, down to the earth approach I recommend Linux and UNIX for a beginner training suite, 4DVDs + 2CDs includes 4 Unix Academy Certifications ed.2008. I give the book 4 starts because it is also little stale on some subjects but in general this book flies high.