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Title: Unix in a Nutshell: System V & Solaris 2.0 by Daniel Gilly ISBN: 1-56592-001-5 Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc Pub. Date: 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (23 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Get started quickly
Comment: This is a great reference for beginners. It is billed as a reference for System V and Solaris 2.0 but applies well to most versions of UNIX, even Linux.

It is more of a command and function reference than a tutorial, in fact it is NOT a tutorial but with a little practice on a UNIX system you will find this book invaluable. I have O'Reilly books specific to vi, sed and awk, but this one is the main reference I use for looking up command structure.

Its the most comprehensive and usable UNIX references I have seen and compares well to the big books that cost a lot more and could prop the wheels on a DC-3.

This book in easily carried in an brief case for quick deployment. You can look up things quickly even when folks pop out of the room for a moment, you can look up something and be working away with your newfound information whenthey return and everyone will think you knew it all along. hahaha

Great book, highly recommended. I even use it for AIX although mostly for vi, se and awk.

Rating: 4
Summary: Unix man pages put on paper.
Comment: If you want to be able to read the man pages away frm your computer, this book is for you. Basically its general unix MAN pages put on page, without all the length bs thats in the computerized version. All the attributes are listed and explained clearly (more clearly than most of the man pages, which I sometimes find to be poorly written or by people too nerdy for their own good). But thats only 1/3 of the book. The other 2/3 is details about each shell, C shell, Korn shell, Bourne shell. It then goes on to discuss things like pattern matching, emacs, troffm sedm awk, make, sccs. And considering this book costs a mere $10 retail its a steal. Especially when computer monitors are not easy on the eyes to read. This is a reference book EVERY unix sys admin needs.

Rating: 5
Summary: excellent reference
Comment: for those crazy VI and EMACS commands, plus the rest of the unix command line, this is a must have, and for the price, you can't beat it!

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