Practical UNIX stands out from other UNIX books because of its focus and determination to solve the problems and address the concerns of the beginning to intermediate UNIX user. Practical UNIX teaches what its namesake promises -- practical applications and information that the reader can easily find and use. Readers can count on this book to provide solid reference information and practical knowledge necessary to master the ever-complex UNIX. Topics covered in Practical UNIX include Listing, Finding, Displaying, and Printing Files, Generating and Using File Lists, System Security, Command-Line Editing, Introduction to Emacs, Accessing Other UNIX Systems on the Network and Internet, Writing Bourne Shell Scripts, and Writing Perl Programs.
Steve "Mor" Moritsugu is a senior software engineer and support supervisor with DTR Business Systems. With over 20 years of computer operating systems under his belt, has been a featured speaker at computer conferences around the world and has written articles for various trade magazines. He also teaches UNIX Operating System, System Administration, and Shell Script Programming at Santa Ana College in southern California. DTR Business Systems sells, integrates, installs, configures, and supports thousands of UNIX systems across North America.