UNIX for Programmers and Users

by Graham Glass, King Ables

This text offers an accessible overview of UNIX inside and out,
including discussion of basic concepts, popular utilities, shells,
networking, windowing systems, systems programming, internals, and
system administration.
UNIX For Programmers and Users will he useful to novice or
experienced computer science students and professionals.
The updated third edition features the following coverage:
Describes the major flavors of UNIX and Linux
Includes a new chapter on the Bourne Again Shell (bash) and
describes all four major UNIX shells
Documents over 100 utilities and their common options including
awk, grep, sed, Perl, vi, and emacs
Includes a fully documented "Internet Shell" program that
supports redirection and piping to other Internet shells on remote
hosts
Numerous illustrations, examples, summaries, quizzes, exercises,
and plentiful source code complement the narrative to provide a
superior UNIX learning tool for any version of UNIX.

Genres: Computers

687 pages, Paperback

Published February 16, 2003

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the required chapters for my course. It was a pretty decent book for the subject.

[Darrell Ulm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has some good information, although wordy in areas.