You've asked for it; now it's here: the Second Edition of The UNIX CD Bookshelf, containing updated books from O'Reilly plus the software from UNIX Power Tools -- all on a convenient CD-ROM. A bonus hardcopy book, UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, is also included.
Included on the CD-ROM are UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition; UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition (with software); Learning the UNIX Operating System, 4th Editions; Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition; sed & awk, 2nd Edition; and Learning the Korn Shell.
Never has it been easier to learn, or look up, what you need to know online. Formatted in HTML, The UNIX CD Bookshelf can be read by any Web browser. The books are fully searchable and are cross-referenced. In addition to individual indexes for each book, a master index for the entire library is provided.
Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He has worked with Unix systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix. He has been a heavy AWK user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of AWK. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for AWK. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. He is also coauthor of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor. Since late 1997, he and his family have been living happily in Israel.