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Universal Command Guide: For Operating Systems

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I had waited a long time for a book that could serve me as "manual pages" for different operating systems.

Best part of this book is that if you are familiar with one OS you can now find the similar command in another OS. Afterall, when learning commands of a new OS the most difficult part (atleast for myself) was to ask the right questions - what can you do in this OS? I've used the book to find right commands for optimizing my Linux environment for heavy Matlab use and the book has served it's purpose well.

Because of good indexing of the book I feel that it is also good material for university students, especially for Operating systems courses.

There is one bad thing about the book, though. It is extremely big and heavy - and will probably ruin your bookbag ;D

While initially quite skeptical of a book attempting to cover such disparate operating systems, the reality is that I have found this volume to be indespensible. Since I work with Red Hat Linux primarily and Solaris (v8) also rather frequently, it's easy use the UCG to get the syntax differences of those two environments. Sure, I could just scan the man pages -- but the already well-worn out copy of my UCG has enough bookmarks and paperclip (and yellow highlights) to make turning to it easier. It has also helped me better understand that there are quite a few ways to perform networking tasks using the Windows command line (as opposed to becoming dependent on the GUI). The charts showing the equivalency of commands across the diverse operating environments is a real time-saver. As a partisan of the O'Reilly books, I've come to the general conclusion that the value of a book is inversely proportional to its size. A big, thick book is generally fluff. But, this one is the exception.

This book is very complete for the OS's it covers. However, it doesn't cover HPUX or Digital Unix, which, AFAIK, are pretty popular variants of UNIX (especially HPUX).

Don't get me wrong...it's a real buy. The cross-reference and details (including examples) are excellent, and it's a "must" for persons having to deal with a heterogeneous OS environment; or for admins/users having to get used to a new OS.

I just wish the cover didn't say, "Every Command \ Every Operating System \ Cross-Referenced Together". That, to me, is misleading.

In the ways this book could accually help me to easy learn Unix from my past experience of windows. I have tried befor to understand unix like i do windows but it has seemed so diffucult to learn that advanced text based system. I have feelt trapped
in the windows systems i used.

This book have opened that barrier for me, its so easy to understand now when i compare a windows command that i know, to a unix command who have the same functionality!

Unix is still advanced, but this book was one great step for me to recycle my window knowlage to Unix using the awesome cross-reference.

I wanna thank the author and the team who came up with this idea of book. It has really helpt me alot.

The book is amazing, it has all the commands i need, from windows to UNIX, but the downside of this is it doesn't have the HP-UX version. i hope they release an updated version of this book with the ones they're missing. One more thing is the pages of this book are too thin, one false move might cause the page to break. I hope the next release should more physically better. I hope you release a universal database version too. And for all the authors of this book out there... keep up the good work.

Recieved a copy of this book 2-3 days ago and a new world has opened for me. Everything seems so simple with this book. It's easy to read the book and easy to find what you are looking for. This book saves many hours of looking for information and helps you doing a better job.

I have been buying command books for quite some time now, and i must say that nothing comes even close to what this book has to offer. Every command, every option and a complete cross-reference table, i am amazed. It doesn't matter wheter your'e coming from the microsoft, novell or unix side, this book covers it ALL. My personal recommendation is: BUY, is well worth the money.

I do not know that much about computers. But this book has opened a new world for me. It's easy to read and understand. It's easy to learn. This book should have been released years ago.

I have never seen a more comprehensive command book ever, i doubt there is anything out there that even comes close to what this book really is. Every command, every option, cross reference between operating systems, what more do we need??? I have been bying books about operating systems and hoped that there would be some kind of command description in them, the result have been poor until now. Universal Command Guide for Operating Systems covers all of my needs and are by far better than i hoped for when i bought the book. My advise to all of you is to invest in this item, it will help you in your work, it will entertain you when you're not working and it will amaze you at any time.

It is like having every man page for every unix command in one book. It is incredible! This book has absolutely every Solaris and Linux command that I have ever used and there are hundreds I did not even know existed. I can't judge AIX or OpenBSD because I don't use them but it looks complete. It even includes every switch/option for the commands. The descriptions are very clear and the examples are great. I definately recommend that you buy this book. I don't care much about the cross-referencing, I will probably never see a Novell server and we have plenty of Microssoft techies to handle any Microsoft issues but it is nice to know that it is there.