Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:21:01 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: FW: RE: Good unix books [was: FreeBSD] Message-ID: <XFMail.000309142101.brownicm@prokyon.com>
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(Sorry, Sue... the list is where I intended this to go) I've been using UNIX for about five years. Learned it in tech school and never looked back. Back then, I bought "UNIX Shell Programming" by Kochan & Wood, published by Hayden Books. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067248448X/102-8421554-9920016 It's a bit old and dated now, but most of it is still applicable. In the course of explaining shell scripts, it gives a really good introduction to the basics of UNIX and shell operations. It starts at the very beginning i.e. ls, cat, rm, mkdir and so on. Well written and not dry, it had me moving around and feeling like I could actually do things from the very first. It and Greg Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD ", 2nd ed. are the books I learned from. Over the years, I've collected a lot of others (O'Reilly's vi Editor Pocket Reference comes to mind), but I still go back to these two fairly often. On 09-Mar-00 Sue Blake wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 02:27:47PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> The real question is: what's a good book for learning UNIX? There >> were none when I learnt UNIX, but one book I rather like is "UNIX for >> the Impatient" by Abrahams and Larson (Addison Wesley). I'd be >> interested in feedback from real newbies who have started out with >> this book, because it will help me decide whether to continue >> recommending it. ---------------------------------- "if you believe in Nothing... ...Honey, It believes in you." Chris Browning brownicm@prokyon.com XFMail on FreeBSD 3.2 09-Mar-00 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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