UNIX and Linux
There are many available Unix books representing a wide
range in levels of presentation. With the increase in
popularity of Linux
many of the available references now focus on that
particular flavour of Unix. If this is your first experience
with Linux, and you would like a hard copy reference,
I suggest that you first browse the Operating Systems
section of a bookstore with a decent computers section (the
UBC Bookstore has deteriorated over the years in this
respect), to try to find something which appears
suited to you. The following books are fairly representative
and if not available in town, can be ordered online:
- Learning the Unix Operating System: A Concise
Guide for the New User; Peek at al, O'Reilly &
Associates.
- Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference:;
Siever et al, O'Reilly & Associates.
Comprehensive, ``quick-reference''-style tome with Linux
emphasis.
- Unix for the Impatient, 2nd ed.; Abrahams and
Larson, Addison-Wesley. Comprehensive; covers both 'vi'
and 'emacs' and will provide more than enough
information for this course.
- The Unix Programming Environment; Kernighan
and Pike, Prentice-Hall.
A classic Unix reference which, although old, is still
well worth studying for those of you interested in
becoming Unix experts.
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