UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition: A Desktop Quick Reference for System V Release 4 and Solaris 2.0 (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)): Gilly, Daniel, O'Reilly Media, Inc.: 9781565920019: Amazon.com: Books

UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition: A Desktop Quick Reference for System V Release 4 and Solaris 2.0 (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) 1st Edition

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You may have seen UNIX quick-reference guides, but you've never seen anything like UNIX in a Nutshell. Not a scaled-down quick reference of common commands, UNIX in a Nutshell is a complete reference containing all commands and options, along with generous descriptions and examples that put the commands in context. For all but the thorniest UNIX problems, this one reference should be all the documentation you need.The second edition of UNIX in a Nutshell starts with thorough coverage of System V Release 3. To that, we've added the many new commands that were added to Release 4 and additional commands that were added to Solaris 2.0.Contents include:

All user and programmer commands.
New Korn shell documentation.
Expanded text editing section, including GNU Emacs and nawk.
Shell syntax (sh and csh).
Pattern-matching syntax.
vi and ex commands.
sed and awk commands.
troff and related commands and macros.
sdb and dbx commands.

If you currently use either SVR3 or SVR4 or are planning to in the future, or if you're a Sun user facing the transition to Solaris, you'll want this book. UNIX in a Nutshell is the most comprehensive quickref on the market, a must for any UNIX user.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022

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Good book, good price

Concise UNIX reference

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2009

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There isn't much I can add about this gem. My copy, from 1993, is starting to really show its age - physically. I still use it regularly because so much of the information in it is still relevant and applicable, even to Linux. I have UNIX in Nutshell (4th Ed.) and Linux in a Nutshell (5th Ed.), and while both of those are powerful tomes containing more and newer information than the 2nd Edition, neither can match the 2nd's conciseness.

None of these books is designed as a tutorial, but I think it's worth noting that when I first started using the 2nd Edition in 1993, I knew little of UNIX (although I was not a noob to computing). In any case, almost sixteen years later, this edition is still serving me quite well for probably ~90% of the *nix info I need. I am delighted to see that it is still available!

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Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2016

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Still using this book, 20 years later

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019

If this isn't both testament to the utility of a book (using for 20 years), and the staying power of Amazon, and the relevance of the two together (Unix and Amazon AWS), I don't know what is. Wowza, what an interesting journey to click back this far in history, yet have it be so relevant today.

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Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2008

There's no better reference book for Unix. Recommended to me by all my programming pals.

Stephen J. Hawkins

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2014

Great Unix book.

Alexander E. Paulsen

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Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2004

This is a great reference for beginners. It is billed as a reference for System V and Solaris 2.0 but applies well to most versions of UNIX, even Linux.
It is more of a command and function reference than a tutorial, in fact it is NOT a tutorial but with a little practice on a UNIX system you will find this book invaluable. I have O'Reilly books specific to vi, sed and awk, but this one is the main reference I use for looking up command structure.
Its the most comprehensive and usable UNIX references I have seen and compares well to the big books that cost a lot more and could prop the wheels on a DC-3.
This book in easily carried in an brief case for quick deployment. You can look up things quickly even when folks pop out of the room for a moment, you can look up something and be working away with your newfound information whenthey return and everyone will think you knew it all along. hahaha
Great book, highly recommended. I even use it for AIX although mostly for vi, se and awk.

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2001

Most of my development time is spent on Windows. But deployment almost always has been on UNIX. That's when I need to use vi sometimes, make changes to some "make" files, do some basic navigation and file manipulation. The Nutshell book fulfills my needs in that aspect. For advanced shell scripting or awk programming, you need to look elsewhere. But then that is not the purpose of the book anyway.

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Matthew Cokeley

there is not great differnce, and the price was not life threatning

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2015

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The book received WAS THE OLDER VERSION version NOT the one in the thumbnail (the referee's on the front), which i could have borrowed off a work colleague.

Never the less, there is not great differnce, and the price was not life threatning :P

Dave O

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2017

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just the job.

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