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Learning the Unix Operating System (Nutshell Handbooks) - Softcover

Todino-gonguet, Grace; Strang, John

 
9780937175163: Learning the Unix Operating System (Nutshell Handbooks)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0937175161 ISBN 13: 9780937175163

Synopsis

If you are new to UNIX, this concise introduction will tell you just what you need to get started and no more. Why wade through a 600-page book when you can begin working productively in a matter of minutes?Topics covered include:

  • Logging in and logging outContents include:
  • Window systems (especially X/Motif)
  • Managing UNIX files and directories
  • Sending and receiving mail
  • Redirecting input/output
  • Pipes and filters
  • Background processing
This book is the most effective introduction to UNIX in print. The third edition provides increased coverage of window systems and networking. It's a handy book for someone just starting with UNIX, as well as someone who encounters a UNIX system as a "visitor" via remote login over the Internet.

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About the Authors

Todino is noa a Professional Expatriate, having lived in Oman, Gabon and Holland for the last 10 years. She currently resides in Malaysia. She writes and edits travel articles for local publications.

John Strang now finds himself ""a consumer--rather than a producer of Nutshells."" He is currently a diagnostic radiologist (MD) at Stanford University. He is married to a pediatrician, Susie, and they have two children, Katie and Alex. John enjoys hiking, bicycling, and dabbling in other sciences. He plans to use his experience as an author at ORA to write his own book on radiology.

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Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0937175161
ISBN 13 
9780937175163
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
75
Editor
Dongherty Dale