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Designed for first-time and experienced users, this book describes the UNIX® programming environment and philosophy in detail. Readers will gain an understanding not only of how to use the system, its components, and the programs, but also how these fit into the total environment.

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Designed for first-time and experienced users, this book describes the UNIX®programming environment and philosophy in detail. Readers will gain an understanding not only of how to use the system, its components, and the programs, but also how these fit into the total environment.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prentice-Hall; First Edition (November 1, 1983)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 013937681X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0139376818
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

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Tom Johnson

The UNIX Programming Environment, by Kernighan and Pike, is a classic book describing how to use the UNIX/Linux os environment.

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2017

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Brian W. Kernighan, of Bell Labs, was/is a prolific author to technical books on software development.
"The UNIX Programming Environment" shows the UNIX/Linux user how to get around
on a UNIX/Linux system using the command line.
Although the use of graphical user interfaces (GUI) have increased in popularity and functionality,
the ability to use the command line interface (CLI) is still a very powerful way to access the computer.

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PeterJThaggard

A timeless oldie-but-goodie that I recommend for every serious developer

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2016

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A must have for anybody who really wants to get into the mindset of a developer living in a Unix/Linux world. I bought this copy of the book to give to a friend of mine who is a great java developer, but his lack of Unix/Shell knowledge was really holding him back at work. After only a week I am already noticing that he is much more efficient working on our Linux machines at work.

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Putting it all together

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I believe I read The UNIX Programming Environment, by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike (henceforth K&P) shortly after it came out in 1983. I had recently graduated with a PhD in Biochemistry. The UNIX Programming Environment was one of three books that came out of Bell Labs in the seventies and eighties: Software Tools by Kernighan and Plauger in 1976, The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie in 1978, and The UNIX Programming Environment by K&P in 1983. My graduate mentor, who was one of those remarkable people who knows everything but is somehow not a know-it-all, pointed me to them. (He was not a computer guy -- I think he may have had a brother who worked at Bell Labs.) I have little formal education in programming, and these remarkable books were invaluable.

The UNIX Programming Environment is the culmination of the two previous books. Software Tools described an approach to building useful software -- by building a collection of tools that worked well together to do almost anything. The tools were awkwardly written in Fortran because that was widely available. The C Programming Language presented a programming language that actually worked. The UNIX Programming Environment presented the new operating system by Bell Labs, in which these tools could be developed and comfortably used together to do useful things (develop more software, for instance).

By any measure, unix has been a huge success. It was initially owned by Bell Labs, but they licensed it to many companies and universities. The University of California at Berkeley developed its own very popular variety of unix, BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution), on which most currently extant *nixes are more-or-less based. *nix is unix jargon for any unix variant, including GNU/linux, which is not, strictly speaking, unix. In 1991 Linus Torvalds developed a unix-like kernel (the core of the operating system), free of any privately held intellectual property, which he called linux. Together with software tools from the Free Software Foundation, this became the free GNU/linux operating system, which now runs on more CPUs by far than any other. When we consider that MacOS is a unix and that the latest versions (10 and 11) of Windows run linux under the Windows Subsystem for Linus (WSL), *nixes have become nearly universal in computing.

Despite its age of 40 years, which in computing is ancient, The UNIX Programming Environment is still a useful guide to the fundamentals of *nix.

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Essential reading for sys admins

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While it was written in 1984 - it cover the roots of unix when it was a simpler operating system. Thus, there are basics covered I feel are not easy to glean nowadays - details of quoting and command line atoms, how the control keys work, and my favorite - anonymous file handles. For the 4 chapters I have read so far, it has helped me immensely.

It is not for the beginner unix person - some frustration must be experienced at the command line to really appreciate this book.

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UN HA KIM

Nice classic.

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2015

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Nice classic.
In the fast moving computer industry, it is surprising that this old book still have relevant information for Unix.
Authors are researchers from AT&T lab at the time and can feel the breath of OS creating research power.
Unix is mostly regarded as unfriendly for Windows users.
But, while reading this book, Unix feels easy and simple.
I got to like the idea of pipe.
It is ancient component model in text mode.

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james peckham

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Great price for a great book. Thanks!

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Chris G. Sebastian

Old, but Still Relavent

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2014

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This book is truly amazing. This book is older than me, and yet it still is able to provide valuable insight into today's Linux systems.

Being a Kerninghan book, the writing style is clean, simple, logical, and easy-to-follow. It's an excellent first or second book for new Unix users. It also provides good background/motivational information, which helps you to understand why things are the way they are.

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gkm77

One of the most influential technical books ever written

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2003

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In addition to providing a broad, albeit detailed introduction to UNIX, this book contains some of the most well-written and documented C code for students of the language. One chapter illustrates the construction of a simple calculator which gradually evolves into a stack-based virtual machine with a lex/yacc-based instruction set interpreter. The reader is guided through both the theory and practice of software design by demonstrating the almost "organic" growth of a complex software system out of a simpler one.
A definite must read.

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j_nt

Libro de culto.

Reviewed in Mexico on July 22, 2023

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Ufff este libro resuelve muchas dudas del sistema GNU/Linux. Aún va muy actual el libro. Mucha información útil que te servirá y más si eres un principiante. Muy recomendado este libro, no me arrepiento de haberlo comprado. Libro definitivo para sistemas basados en Unix.

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GodelEscher

Still relevant in 2017

Reviewed in Canada on May 20, 2017

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This book is still relevant, everything in it basically you can still use today especially the chapter on filters to understand Grep, Sed, and AWK and the shell programming chapter. There's also a good intro to programming standard I/O and using syscalls though these days I would use Golang for that. The chapter 'The File System' is general enough that almost everything contained is still relevant, like directory permissions, and symbolic links. Contains a lot of material how to print from the terminal and control the piped output and eliminate wasteful printing, so if for whatever reasons you need to use an old printer from the command line or via a script (they still use them at airlines and banks) you will want this book.

Very well written like all Kernighan's books are. There is an interesting final chapter on program development, where the authors use yacc/lex to write an interpreter for a language they designed. You need C experience to understand Chapter 6, 7 and 8 but this of course invites you to read Kernighan's other book the C Programming Language. I even learned some new things from the introduction chapter 'Unix For Beginners' like an appreciation for ed.

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Parseeker

An absolute classic

Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2021

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This book is a timeless classic. I highly recommend it for anyone starting out in a Unix-like environment, especially these days when the emphasis has gone away from deep learning of fundamental concepts.

Unfortunately this Prentice Hall print is showing its age in print quality. I purchased my first copy (now missing) in 1987 and I spent many a fond hour learning from it.

Sébastien Wilmet

Toujours d'actualité, très bon livre

Reviewed in France on December 26, 2018

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J'utilise Linux depuis plus de 10 ans, je m'y connais quand même assez bien, mais j'avais appris sur le tas en lisant des tutoriels à gauche et à droite. En lisant The UNIX Programming Environment, j'ai maintenant des bases plus solides, j'ai appris plein de choses utiles même si le livre est assez vieux, j'ai des meilleures compétences pour écrire des scripts shell, et je comprends mieux le pourquoi de certains choix du design de UNIX, qui a été créé comme un environnement de programmation pratique (le livre a été écrit par deux des créateurs de UNIX, donc on a l'information directement à la source).

Le livre est chouette à lire, il y a de l'humour, et les exercices sont intéressants.

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Dennis Blondell Decker

A classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2013

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I finally got around to get this classic. So many years later it still is a testament to the simple style of both usage, style, and implementation that characterizes genuine Unix. It ought to be a requirement to programmers to have read this, in order to understand how to build up not only small tools but big applications piecemeal. The most important point of the book to take away is the idea of the software environment as inhabitable, your programs and modules living in the environment where you can piece together the applications needed rather than a stiff, finished, prepared environment where you can do nothing not already thought out in advance for you and your needs.

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