Hands-On Unix: A Practical Guide With the Essentials of Coherent - Softcover

Sobell, Mark G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805375686 ISBN 13: 9780805375688

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1994

Synopsis

Pages are clean and binding is tight.

About this title

About the Author

Mark G. Sobell is the author of many best-selling books, including A Practical Guide to Linux, A Practical Guide to Solaris, A Practical Guide to the UNIX System, and UNIX System V: A Practical Guide (all from Addison-Wesley). Mark has more than twenty-five years of experience working with UNIX and Linux. He is the president of Sobell Associates Inc., a consulting firm that designs and builds custom software applications for UNIX and Linux systems and provides training and support.

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From the Back Cover

This excellent package delivers Unix System V: A Practical Guide, plus The Essentials of Coherent, a popular PC-based Unix operating system clone developed by the Mark Williams Company.

The third edition of Unix System V: A Practical Guide is a complete tutorial guide to System V Release 4.2 that has been thoroughly updated to reflect the changes made in this version of Unix.

With a look and feel almost identical to that of Unix, Coherent is a virtual clone of the Unix operating system for the PC. Users will gain practical, hands-on experience from this mini-version of the Coherent operating system, taking advantage of Coherent's multi-user, multi-tasking capabilities and utilizing a wide range of utilities and commands. To make this software even easier to use, online help is included and the commands discussed both in the book and on the diskette have the same name and function.

Essentials of Coherent includes:

• The shells: ksh and sh
• Commands for displaying and manipulating files: awk, cat, cp, ed, find, grep, head, kill, lc, ls, ln, me, mkdir, mv, pg, qfind, rm, rmdir, sed, sort, tail, uniq, vi, and wc
• Commands for displaying and altering status: chgrp, chmod, chown, date, df, du, file, newgrp, newusr, ps, pwd, and stty
• Programming tools: c compiler, make, and touch
• Additional tools: at, ATclock, clear, crontab, fsck, login, mknod, mount, passwd, sync, tr, and umount
• 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

Hardware Requirements

The 3.5" and 5.25" diskettes will run on IBM PC-AT (and compatible) 286, 386 and 486 machines. At least 640K of RAM is required. The software will only function through the A floppy drive. It will not function through the B drive or on microchannel-based machines.

Coherent is a registered trademark of Mark Williams Company.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805375686
• ISBN 13: 9780805375688
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 864