pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker) (06/25/91)
maburak@nmsu.edu (Mary Burak) wrote in <MABURAK.91Jun24213816@gauss.nmsu.edu>: > > I'm looking for a book about unix, but all of the books fall >into two categories, either basic stuff (how to log on, send/recieve >mail), or system admin (stuff you need a su account to even try). My >problem is, I fall somewhere in between. > I've talked with people about this, but they all keep asking >what do I want to know. The problem is I don't know what I CAN know, >that is, I don't know very much about unix capabilites. > Does anyone have any recommendations? Mark G. Sobell's "A Practical Guide to the Unix System", second edition, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Redwood City, California. ISBN 0-8053-0243-3 Coming froma VM and MVS background with next to no Unix experience, I used Sobell's book to come up to speed on a Unix box in less than a week. The book covers System V Release 3 and BSD 4.3, discusses differences between the two flavours when relevant, and leads the user on quite a decent tour. I'd suggest sitting down at a terminal with the book in hand, and trying the examples (their are many of these). From page xii, the "Brief Contents": Part 1, The Unix System 1 The UNIX OS 2 Getting Started 3 An Introduction to the Utilities 4 The File Structure 5 The Shell 6 The vi editor 7 The nroff Text Formatter 8 The Bourne Shell 9 The C Shell 10 Programming Tools 11 System Administration Part 2, The UNIX Utility Programs (230 pages of description, arranged like man pages, but much more readable) Appendixes (sic) A An Introduction to the Korn Shell B Regular Expressions Glossary Index Best of Luck, -- Peter Whittaker [~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~] Open Systems Support pww@bnr.ca [ ] Bell Northern Research Ph: +1 613 765 2064 [ ] P.O. Box 3511, Station C FAX:+1 613 763 3283 [__________________________] Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4H7