Bulletproof UNIX (Paperback)

~ Tim Gottleber (Author)

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"The sample chapters we got from Dr. G.'s book made hard concepts like awk and shell scripting clear and fun." — T. J. Danna, a Unix student at North Lake College in Irving, TX.

"This is the greatest Unix book ever written. You will love it, I know I did." — the Author's mother.

Product Description

/*0-13-093028-8, 9302H-9, Gottleber, Tim, Bulletproof UNIX*/ Written in a personal style that guides the reader through the learning process, this stand alone tool for the learning of UNIX presents topics in the order users need to understand them logically and develop a cohesive picture of covered concepts. Professionals will enjoy a large number of illustrations showing HOW the commands work, and testing their knowledge by trying the command series to see if they get the same results. Chapter topics cover getting started; file handling in UNIX; file matching metacharacters, commands, and history; Editing 101—meet ed; Editing 102—ed's big brother ex; visual editing with vi; interesting commands; tools and concepts; process control; regular expressions and the grep sisters; types of text processing; awk; and shell scripting. For anyone who uses UNIX, and anyone who needs to become a proficient UNIX user.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 766 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (September 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130930288
• ISBN-13: 978-0130930286
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,071,327 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Information, Terrible Writing Style, January 15, 2004

By A Customer

The content of this book is good and anyone from a beginner to experienced UNIX user will learn something from reading this book. However, I can't recommend it because the author writes this book as if he is speaking to 3rd graders. The author's tone seems to assume all readers of the book are clueless and need tiresome explanations about obvious points. The book is also filled with un-funny side commentary that is intended (I guess) to make the technical material more readable-but it fails miserably.

An example of how the author goes wrong is in chapter 11, where the UNIX "grep" command is covered. The author continually refers to the "grep" command as "she." I suppose he thinks that personifying a UNIX command will somehow make the material more enjoyable to his "3rd grade readers." He couldn't be more wrong! I find this style so annoying I want rip the pages from the book and send them mercilessly through a shredder!

So, unless you like to read technical books with the words "dummy" or "idiot" in the title, I would stay away from this one. There is no shortage of excellent UNIX books out there, so there is no reason to waste time with this one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars alright, February 18, 2008

By	Jacob - See all my reviews

it is an alright book for learning some little things, but don't feel like i learned much from this book as i could have from another

4.0 out of 5 stars good book for beginners, January 20, 2003

By A Customer

Really a good book for the students who are in the beginning stage of UNIX.