UNIX System V: A Practical Guide (3rd Edition) - Softcover

Sobell, Mark G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080537566X ISBN 13: 9780805375664

Publisher: Pearson, 1994

Synopsis

This revision offers the same balanced coverage and clear writing style that distinguished the bestselling original. Sobell now includes coverage of designing and using graphical user interfaces like X Windows and Motif. The traditionally strong coverage of networking and electronic mail has also been expanded as has the coverage of UNIX system administration.

About this title

About the Author

Mark G. Sobell is president of Sobell Associates Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in UNIX/Linux training, support, and custom software development. He is the author of many best-selling UNIX and Linux books and has more than twenty-five years of experience working with UNIX and Linux.

From the Back Cover

Thoroughly updated to reflect the changes made in Release 4.2, the third edition of this respected title presents Unix as it is used today. A thorough tutorial-based introduction to Unix, this book covers the operating system, utilities, shell programming, the vi editor, job control, system administration and much more.

Unix System V includes new chapters on Graphical User Interfaces, Networking, emacs, and the Korn Shell as well as new appendices on the Posix standards and the version- specific features of AIX, HPUX, and SCO Unix. In addition, the book describes more than 75 of the most frequently used Unix utilities such as awk, make, sccs, rcs, sed, and sort. This essential tutorial and reference guides readers through each chapter with the help of easy-to-follow examples, sample screens, command summaries, and chapter review exercises.

A separate version of the book is available bundled with the PC-based Coherent operating system.

Features

• New chapters discussing the Korn Shell, the emacs text editor, Networking, and Graphical User Interfaces.
• Coverage of the latest releases of UNIX as well as the POSIX Standards.
• An enhanced, step-by-step tutorial introduction to UNIX that incorporates examples, exercises, sample screens, and review questions.
• A demonstration of the use of UNIX for text editing, electronic mail, shell programming, and other applications, and present in-depth coverage of the make, SCCS, RCS, awk, and sed programming tools.
• An invaluable overview of the UNIX system in Chapter 1.
• Coverage of the Bourne, C, and Korn shells in detail and explain how to write shell programs (shell scripts).
• A reference to more than 75 of the most frequently used UNIX utilities in Part II.
• Clearly marked sections of optional advanced material for experienced UNIX users.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080537566X
• ISBN 13: 9780805375664
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 864