Inside Unix - Softcover

Hare, Chris; Dulaney, Emmett; Eckel, George; Lee, Steven; Ray, Lee; Steen, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1562054910 ISBN 13: 9781562054915

Publisher: New Riders Pub, 1996

A book/disk tutorial on UNIX for advanced users and beginning system administrators, covering shell basics and the command line, working with editors, graphic user interfaces, mastering the shell, administration, UNIX variations, the Internet and communications, and connections. Appendices contain programs in Perl and C, and a comparison of UNIX and DOS for DOS-based users transferring to UNIX. The companion disk contains shell scripts. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Review:

If you are approaching Unix with an eye toward achieving administrator-level mastery, Inside Unix, Second Edition, mixes plenty of how-to details with the concepts you need to gain total understanding of the operating system.

Chris Hare and his co-authors open with a useful explanation of basic Unix concepts (such as kernel versus shell) and then quickly move on to explaining commands, redirection, and sorting. The authors give the text editor vi lavish coverage and give enough attention to ED to enable you to use it to get out of a jam. Inside Unix, Second Edition, details more of X Windows, Motif, and OpenWindows than other books and competently explains Bourne shell programming. The writers compare and critique the many flavors of Unix.

But Inside Unix, Second Edition, distinguishes itself in its discussion of the Unix utilities that make the Internet go. Want to configure a Domain Name Server (DNS) or see how routing is handled? You'll find the answers here, plus you'll find the most complete information on nslookup. This book includes an excellent Unix command reference and a 3.5-inch floppy disk that contains the shell programs that are introduced in the text.

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