UNIX and Linux
There are many available Unix books representing a wide
range
in levels
of presentation. With the rapid increase in popularity of Linux many of
the available references now focus on that particular
flavour of Unix.
If
this is your first experience with Linux, and you would like
a hard
copy
reference, I suggest that you first
browse the Operating Systems section of a bookstore with a
decent
computers section (the UBC Bookstore has deteriorated over
the years in
this respect), to try to find something
which appears suited to you. The following books are fairly
representative and if not available in town, can be ordered
online:
- Learning the Unix Operating System: A Concise
Guide for the New User; Peek at al, O'Reilly
&
Associates. ($15.92 from Chapters.ca).
An
earlier version of this guide provided a good, quick
introduction to
Unix, but didn't cover any of the popular editors.
- Unix in a Nutshell: System V Edition, 3rd
Edition; Robbins,
O'Reilly
& Associates. ($31.50 from Chapters.ca).
Comprehensive,
``quick-reference''-style
tome.
- Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference:;
Siever et al,
O'Reilly
& Associates. ($41.95 from Chapters.ca).
Comprehensive,
``quick-reference''-style
tome with Linux emphasis.
- Unix for the Impatient, 2nd ed.; Abrahams and
Larson,
Addison-Wesley,
(824 pages, $39.95 from Chapters.ca).
Quite
comprehensive; covers both 'vi' and 'emacs'
and will provide more than enough information for this
course.
- The Unix Programming Environment; Kernighan
and
Pike,
Prentice-Hall
(350 pages, $62.95 from Chapters.ca).
A
classic Unix reference which, although old,
is still well worth studying for those of you interested
in becoming
Unix experts.
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