Teach Yourself...Unix (Teach Yourself...(Mis Pr)) - Softcover

Reichard, Kevin; Johnson, Eric F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558284184 ISBN 13: 9781558284180

Publisher: M & T Books, 1995

Synopsis

Put your UNIX fears to rest and embark on the programming path with teach yourself UNIX®, 3rd Edition. Starting with UNIX session basics and the UNIX directory, veteran authors Kevin Reichard and Eric F. Johnson provide you with the foundation for a successful programming career.

teach yourself UNIX, 3rd Edition also covers, permissions, logins, passwords, UNIX Internet tools, and the command line. Plus, teach yourself UNIX, 3rd Edition explains advanced UNIX capabilities such as multitasking, Awk programs, Perl scripts, and the streams editor. Reichard and Johnson include a detailed glossary and an appendix of basic UNIX commands.

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Review

Teach Yourself Unix, Third Edition, does a fair job of explaining commands to newer users, but truly distinguishes itself with its attention to C and Perl programming. The book also contains a good command reference and glossary but loses some credibility with the appearance of several errors.

Teach Yourself Unix, Third Edition, would serve the reader better if it used different section-titling conventions. For example, "Using the -R Option with Ls" tells the reader nothing; something like "Listing Files in Subdirectories," which is what the -R switch is used for, would be better.

This book also suffers from some production problems. The sections about cc, the C compiler, consistently call the program Cc in their headings. The command ls gets called Ls in headings. Though this clearly is the work of a publishing package that puts headings into title case, Unix is case-sensitive and typing Cc in place of cc or Ls in place of ls will usually cause an error.

About the Author

Eric Foster-Johnson is a veteran programmer and computer book author. Faced with incompatible and problematic systems, his main goal is to ensure others don't experience the same pains he did. His books include Cross-Platform Perl, Graphical Applications with Tcl and Tk, and UNIX Programming Tools.; Kevin Reichard is the author of 24 books for IDG Books Worldwide, including Linux Configuration and Installation and UNIX in Plain English. He's the Web Advisor columnist for Performance Computing.

Edition details

• Publisher: M & T Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1558284184
• ISBN 13: 9781558284180
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 450