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UNIX System V Release 4: An Introduction

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I bought the original version of this book in 1991-1992. It's still the best UNIX "How-to" book on the market. Absolutely no other book in my "UNIX library" provides more useful information on such a wide variety of topics: shells, networking, user environment configuration, mail, etc., etc., etc. It's all in here. It's especially great for beginners, since it covers all of the basics that normally provide stumbling blocks for beginning UNIX users. I highly recommend it.

I have had this book for about 1 year. In that time, I have had the oppurtunity to use it to demistify the world's most interesting operating system. There is someting for everyone. What makes this book the default? It does not waste time, and is a fast read.

The authors understand that your time is valuable. There are 1016 pages divided into 31 chapters, and 119 pages divded into five appdendicies. You will be so excited and glad to learn how everything works, that you won't even know that you missed Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and the convention you and your dying buddy were suppose to go to.

There truely is no other thick UNIX book that efficently explains what you want to know. I suggest downloading a copy of FreeBSD and following along. With this book, you'll be getting things done, while others are still plowing through the rhetoric of the other guys.

Had to give this one four stars, though, instead of five. The chapter on Tcl/Tk and Expect (chapter 20) is loaded with errors - probably editorial in nature (lots of places where parentheses are used instead of brackets "{}" and these WILL cause errors if you try to run the commands.). Otherwise, this is a fine book for learning Unix or going beyond the beginner level. The authors not only know their stuff, but they communicate it well. Highly recommended!

I used the 1990 book when I was developing a project that required my taking the role of the sysop of a Unix system at a remote site. This book was great for me, even though I'm really a Windows guy. It answered all my questions and functioned as my only resource for several months until the project completed. I have to admit, I read a great part of the 1000 or so pages. I believe this was unbelievably nerdy on my part- I really didn't need to do it. Probably I fell into reading so much because the book was well written and easy to follow. I now consider myself fluent in Unix.

The authors helped me to become a better engineer by writing such an accessible and complete book. (Thank you.)

It's been about 15 years since completing the project and only now am I reluctantly parting with the book. I'm running out of space and I haven't done one single thing with Unix since then. I figure if I need this book again, I can repurchase it for $0.01 (used) or get it on the Kindle.

If you feel shaky with Unix, but have had some minor exposure to it in the past and now need to take some big responsibilities, and are a computer person, I highly recommend this book.

I own the first and second editions of this book. I keep a copy at home, and one at work. It is comprehensive guide to the UNIX operating system. I always look here first for any questions or help I need with UNIX. I would recommend this book for anyone that uses UNIX.

The Bible of Unix. The one (and final) book you need in UNIX. Your search ends with this book. Well defined examples, explanations, notations. Be it a beginner, intermediate or expert you SHOULD have this book, if you are a Unix user.

Finally, a Unix book that is so comprehensive!

This book is excellent it goes from basic commands to even teaching you a little Perl programming. I reccomend this book to the advanced users and the beginner . This book is a good reference and also a way to learn unix. It even has a list of books at the end of each chapter that go into that topic's details .