<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:19 AM, siblog <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tehsiblog@gmail.com">tehsiblog@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div dir="ltr">I have "Unix in a nutshell: A desktop reference cover GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris" (4th edition) from OReilly and actually use it more than I expected I would. I primarily use the book as a reference for Unix, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris commands but it has other good sections on Bash/Korn, pattern matching, make, package management, Awk/Sed, CVS and more. Like the subtitle says the book is more of a reference guide than a book that you would read cover to cover so I definitely would recommend it as a supplementary book to those that you are looking at below<br> <br>Here is the Amazon link - <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Nutshell-Fourth-Arnold-Robbins/dp/0596100299/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222437827&sr=1-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Nutshell-Fourth-Arnold-Robbins/dp/0596100299/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222437827&sr=1-1</a></div> </blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the info. I actually saw that one at B&N but passed it up as I thought it was too focused on pure UNIX and didn't realize it covered all the off-shoots as well. I'll check it out but it's a few years old. I'm not sure it matter much with UNIX but old computer books tend to be, well, old. <br> </div></div><br>-- <br>Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)<br>----<br>Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.<br>See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a><br> </div>