SUMMARY: Looking for a UNIX book

["Donald J. Plummer" <donp -at- BGNET -dot- BGSU -dot- EDU>]

Thank you to all who responded to my query about good UNIX books.  Several
of you asked for a summary, so here are the recomendations I received.

The most often recommended book was:

Title:  UNIX in a Nutshell
Author(s):  Daniel Gully
Publisher:  O'Reilly & Assoc.
ISBN:  1-56592001-5


Other recommended general reference books were:

Title:  UNIX for Dummies
Author(s):  John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young
Publisher:  IDG Books
ISBN:  0-76450130-5

Title:  Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 hours
Author(s):  Dave Taylor & James C. Armstrong, Jr.
Publisher:  Sams
ISBN:  0-67231107-0

Title:  An Introduction to UNIX, with X and the Internet
Author(s):  Paul S. Wang
Publisher:  Pws Publ. Co.
ISBN:  0-53494768-9

Title:  Learning the UNIX Operating System
Author(s):  Grace Todino, Jong Strang, & Jerry Peek
Publisher:  O'Reilly & Assoc.
ISBN:  1-56592060-0

Title:  UNIX Power Tools
Author(s):  Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loudkides
Publisher:  O'Reilly & Assoc.
ISBN:  1-56592260-3


More advanced books, specifically covering shell script programming and the
commands 'awk' and 'sed':

Title:  The UNIX Programming Environment
Author(s):  Brian W. Kernighan
Publisher:  Prentice Hall
ISBN:  0-1393768-1X

Title:  sed & awk
Author(s):  Dale Dougherty & Arnold Robbins
Publisher:  O'Reilly & Assoc.
ISBN:  1-56592225-5

Title:  The AWK Programming Language
Author(s):  Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
Publisher:  Addison-Wesley
ISBN:  0-2010798-1X

Title:  UNIX Shell Programming Language
Author(s):  Rod Manis
Publisher:  Sams
ISBN:  0-67222497-6
(This title is currently out of print, according to Amazon.com)

Again, thanks to all who responded.

don

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Donald J. Plummer
Department of English--Program in
Scientific and Technical Communication
225 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio   USA
419-372-7242  <donp -at- bgnet -dot- bgsu -dot- edu>

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        --George MacDonald

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