Teach Yourself: Unix

Johnson, Eric F., Reichard, Kevin

ISBN 10: 1558282394 / ISBN 13: 9781558282391

Published by Mis Pr, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teach Yourself: Unix
• Publisher: Mis Pr
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558282394
• ISBN 13: 9781558282391
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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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.