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Unix: The Complete Reference | 
| Authors: Kenneth Rosen, Douglas Host, James Farber, Richard Rosinski
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 765742
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1302
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 2.6
ISBN: 007211892X
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
UPC: 783254030909
EAN: 9780072118926
ASIN: 007211892X
Publication Date: July 19, 1999
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Condition: Lots of shelf wear, may contain some notes or highlighting, corners/edges worn and bent, may not include companion materials like cdroms or access codes.
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Product Description
UNIX market is very strong--sales exceed that of Windows NT by a large margin. A thorough revision of UNIX SVR4: An Introduction. Comprehensive coverage of UNIX/NT integration. Uniquely qualified authors-each wroks at Bell Labs, the UNIX birthplace.
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 The book has major factual errors. September 3, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
In general, the book is well written as a teaching reference. In specific, it quite misses the mark.
First, Linux is not an operating system. It is a kernel plus the GNU userland, that is, the programs with which the user interacts in user space, as opposed to what the OS does behind the scenes. That is why it is incarnated as many "distributions."
Second, Linux is moving to things like HAL, UDEV and other mechanisms that have little connection to historic UNIX and much to do as Windows mimics. Devfs is/will be basically gone. Is Linux rather an "anti-windows" than real Unix?
Third, the authors are reviving old Unix Wars biases and grudges. Can anyone say BSD, as in, where much development is happening on the open source level? Greg Lehey opined that SVR4 is itself an artifact of the past. One could make the case that SVR4 systems only live on in derivative forms.
At least the BSD's (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Dragonfly, etc.) will be clear of whatever shakes out in the ongoing SCO issues.
We just want fair and equal coverage. The authors fully missed half of the Unix family tree, including Mac OS X and Darwin.
Hey, if you want the price, cover the ground.
Great book, albeit to simple for people that know about Unix July 14, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
While this book is great overall, if one has had some experience with UNIX in general before, the first chapters will feel like a drag. If one has some simple knowledge of command lines and what they do, or already know perl some of the chapters will be lost on you.
But even so, as a professional having used UNIX variants for a while now have found some interesting tips and tricks to both secure my system, and help me write shell scripts faster and more efficient. Definitely worth the time it takes to read.
 Excellent book April 15, 2006
I think this book is great. I used to use a few other non-reference books when I needed some quick info, and it was always such a pain to find what I needed. Finally I bought this book and it has been so nice finding quick answers to almost any problem I encountered. I would estimate that this book has helped me about 90% of the time I needed it. About 10% of the time I had to find the answer elsewhere (if there even was an answer). Also, I think the book is well-written, clear, and concise. The caveat is that I had been using unix for about 4 years before I bought this book. Some newcomers to unix have left reviews saying that it wasn't too good for them. Although this may be true, I think this book could still be of value. Even if you are an absolute beginner, I would recommend getting this book AND a small/cheap beginner book. After a few weeks/months of getting the very basics down, I think this book will come in handy and really start giving the info that will be of long-term use in the workplace.
Good book, not for the first time UNIX users June 21, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book works as a reference for those who have some experience with UNIX. If you need the initial training, see Linux and UNIX for a beginner training suite, 4DVDs + 2CDs includes 4 Unix Academy Certifications ed.2008. This book while very informative but presumes some degree of familiarity with UNIX that DVD course delivers.
Not the best for non-experts June 14, 2001
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Unix, The Complete Reference claims to be a good reference and it is, but only for the experts. If you're trying to learn Unix or know a little about it and want to learn more, don't buy this book. The examples provided are not very good and can be hard to follow.I was looking for a how-to reference, as the book cover claimed to be. I expected detailed examples and I found a few as I browsed through the book in the store. However, I discovered later that many of the references, specifically to programming, cron tabs and awk, were simply not specific enough. The examples were often broken across several pages requiring me to put three examples together to get one task done. In addition, not every section had an example.
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