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Your UNIX: The Ultimate Guide

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This book is very easy to read and understand. Every section clearly explains the topic and offers plenty of fully explained examples. I find this book an excellent reference for the basics of using the command line, shell scripting, sed and awk. Unlike most textbooks, this will not bore you with heaps of theory--you can use it as a tutorial and to try out the examples as you read. I use linux daily and find almost everything in the book applicable.

(Opps, can I use that word here ?). This is the only book you need for a beginner's to itermediate course. I have a degree in Mathematics plus C and VB programming background plus tones of work experience, but was devestated with "Distributed Computing" (UNIX) tutors, who simply forgot to do a "Train the Trainer" course before accepting the job offer! Anyway, this excellant book has the following strengh: (1) Covering almost all topics even the more obsure unix usage like XARG stuff (2) Appropriate lay-out for easy study & referene (3) concise but just enough details of explanation with PRECISION, so it takes guess work out of your study. I have been buying books from Amazon for years, but this is the first review I wrote, 'cause I owe it to the author !! Hay sumitabha, are you gonna write any other books on C++, c#.net, VB.net, or Java ?

As a former Bell Labs Engineer, I have tasted most of the flavors of Unix. As a computer science professor for 18 years, this is the best book that I have used. The Self-test and exercises gives the user a structured approach to learning Unix, which doesn't always happen in the Unix world. The examples in the text are easy to interpret and the author provides several variations of the commands. The book has an extra bonus with the perl, system administration and TCP/IP sections.

I like easy to read books and I also had assumed that learning UNIX is not necessarily has to be a struggle. This book stood up to my expectations almost perfectly: it is very well written and clearly expressed work. It does not overwhelm with technical details and does not press too much. I also followed an advise in someone review and purchased "UNIX Essentials" DVD that is complete unix course recorded. These two nicely complement one another. You watch it and you read it. If you didn't catch it from the first try you watch it again and read it again. In two months I found myself confident to that extend that gave advises to our system administrator and he accepted them because there were subjects that he wasn't completely sure. What I can say, in three month I passed my first interview and got a job! Sure it is a way to start there much of more advanced reading that will take over you with a time however these two provide you with the BASIS!
I can't overstate how much I have learned from them. Don't be naive, though. You will have to learn and memorize many things. The fact of owning neither book nor DVD will not make you knowledgeable, but if you will work it trough, there is a chance you will surprise many people around!

I did not find in this book anything that may justify its price. It is a general book on UNIX that repeats the same things like any of FREE pdf books by GNU project or "UNIX for dummies" that is 6 times less. The book is also full of mistakes, and on some subjects it's plain wrong. To spend this kind of money you can find much better options out there.
After reviewing most of the ecstatic reviews on this book I conclude they are fake.

I highly recommend this book to everyone who is interested in getting immersed in the world of Unix. Not only does the author present real world scenarios and "what if"scenarios, he also takes his time explaining how it all fits together.

bought this book for a beginner's unix course and is a great reference for all things unix. wonderfully written and easy to follow. a model for other books

this is a great reference book, it explains clearly how to do basic things in unix without confusing the hell out of you. one of the only books i'm keeping after the course was over.

I am very pleased to have such an excellent book. So far I have learnt so much about UNIX/Linux from this book

The content of this book is abundant and almost covers all the field of Unix, like basic operating, administration, shell script, network... etc. The paragraph can be understood easily. Beside the common command of Unix, it also introduce some thing like perl. Although it didn't recover the world of Unix deeply, it is really worth to be read by beginners who want to understand the world of Unix.