Customer Reviews

Unix Cd Bookshelf (Contains 6 books and software)

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I feel that this CDROM should be in every user's PC. I have never been able to reference material as easily and as quickly as I can in this CDROM. No matter what scenario I'm looking for, it's in one of the books on the CD ROM. Yesterday, I couldn't figure out how to rename all of my files in my directory from an old extension .new to a new extension .old. All I did then was pop in this CDROM, type that I want the search engine to search all 6 books and type keywords RENAME AND FILE AND SED (<== i had a feeling Sed would help me), and BOOM, there's my information in two seconds FLAT!! I don't understand the earlier criticism of this CDROM. For the money and the fact that you're getting 6 (count 'em) books (with subjects that are STILL widely used!) on ONE CD with a search option for only 60 BUCKS! Give me a break, this is the deal of the century!

Although single user pack, this CD from O'Reilly is unbeatable. The Unix Power Tools alone worth a lot more $s than the CD itself. The Cross-refs. are great, the search engine didn't work well on my PC, but it works great on a Unix platform (so 4 +stars). Please O'Reilly make it multi-user set and fix the PC related bug then you are a superstar.

I've purchased this book for its search capability. Since I was using a proxy server, the search function didn't work for my PC. I've contacted O'Reilly by e-mail and they responded back promptly. Tech support person told me to set my Netscape Communicator proxy exception to include localhost and it made search work on my PC. I think O'Reilly is including this instructions for their new CDs. I am happy to have 6 books for a cheap price topping it off with this search capability. This is a great deal!

Definitely worth the investment, cheaper than buying the hard copy editions, and easier to use as a reference.

Five stars, except that when I bought it, it was billed as having the latested edition of Learning the Vi Editor (6th). When it arrived, it only had the 5th. O'Reilly has since updated their on-line catalog to reflect this fact, but still doesn't explain why, if they both were published at the same time, why not include the latest edition. Maybe this will be rectified in future printings.

I have been waiting a long time for this, and I am sure glad I waited. Each of the six books by themselves are pretty good, the compilation and HTML format makes this, by far, the easiest and most comprehensive Unix reference material available.

It is so easy to pick up a cross reference to another book. Compiling software is not as straight forward as cut and paste, but it is not difficult either.

One item to note, the version of the Unix in a Nutshell included is the System V and Solaris 2.0 version, i.e. the "2nd edition". The write ups, description of the product, and the text in the initial screens imply the 1st edition, but the BONUS surprise is - it really is the latest.

I pop in the CD while I work on some Unix stuff. It saves time and hassle. I get more ideas and learn new things in a unique way.

But it is a different kind of learning -- so be patient and enjoy!

It is a well structured elemental UNIX reference. A book to have next to your PC

This book is full of comprehensive useful information. If the reader is interesting in knowing a wide range of information and make it applicable you should buy this book. If you are going to critisize a book you should learn how to spell so that everyone is sure you know how to read in the first place.

Instead of 'Learning vi', 'Learning GNU Emacs' whould be better or need to come together. Or at least it should be the 6th edition. 'Sed & awk' is outdated by 'Learning Perl'. Why not 'Learing the bash shell' or 'Using csh & tcsh' than 'Learning the korn shell'? Even 'unix in a nutshell' contains a lot of outdated material. 'Unix power tools' is handy in online.