Unix Power Tools, Third Edition

With the growing popularity of Linux and the advent of Darwin, Unix has metamorphosed into something new and exciting. No longer perceived as a difficult operating system, an increasing number of users are discovering the benefits of Unix for the first time. But whether you’re a newcomer or a Unix power user, You’ll be able to find yourself thumbing through the goldmine of information in the new edition of Unix Power Tools so as to add on your store of knowledge. Want to check out something new? Check this book first, and you are sure to find a tip or trick with the intention to prevent you from learning things the hard way.The recent edition of this best-selling favorite is loaded with advice about almost each aspect of Unix, covering the entire new technologies that users want to know. Along with important information on Linux, Darwin, and BSD, Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition now offers more coverage of bash, zsh, and other new shells, along side discussions about up to date utilities and applications. Several sections focal point on security and Web get admission to. And there’s a new chapter on get admission to to Unix from Windows, addressing the heterogeneous nature of systems lately. You’ll be able to also find expanded coverage of software installation and packaging, in addition to basic information on Perl and Python.Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition is a browser’s book…like a magazine that you do not read from begin to finish, but leaf through again and again until you know that you have read it all. Bursting with cross-references, interesting sidebars explore syntax or point out other directions for exploration, including relevant technical details that is probably not in an instant apparent. The book includes articles abstracted from other O’Reilly books, new information that highlights program tricks and gotchas, tips posted to the Net through the years, and other accumulated wisdom.Affectionately referred to by readers as “the” Unix book, UNIX Power Tools provides get admission to to information each Unix user is going to want to know. It’ll will let you think creatively about UNIX, and will will let you get to the point where you’ll analyze your own problems. Your own solutions may not be far in the back of.

The mark of a craftsman is his familiarity with his tools, the speed with which he can use them to solve simple problems, and his cleverness in the usage of them to solve more complicated challenges. The recent edition of Unix Power Tools explores the usual Unix tools in greater depth than ever, and with better coverage of Linux, FreeBSD, and even the Darwin environment of Mac OS X. It is usually been improved by the addition of sections on Perl and Python, programming languages that may steadily solve Unix problems more adeptly than any specific utility. This detail-filled book distinguishes itself from other guides for Unix gurus with its organizational structure (it is a series of articles that may be absorbed sequentially or in my view) and carefully designed and executed index. Like its esteemed predecessors, this book is one you are going to keep handy.

The authors have achieved a nearly ideal balance in the pages of this book. It isn’t only a choice of recipes (such collections have a tendency to leave you hanging if you wish to do something somewhat otherwise), It isn’t only a book of documentation (books like that have application principally as references for those that know so much already), and It isn’t only a conceptual how-to guide. Unix Power Tools is all of those things, and the overall effect is impressive indeed. When you work with any flavor of Unix, no matter what your level of experience, you are going to benefit by having this book. –David Wall

Topics covered: The right way to work efficiently, elegantly, and creatively with the Unix tool suite, in addition to (to a lesser extent) with Perl and Python scripts. Tips and strategies on customization, document generation, process management, and networking abound on this wisdom-wealthy volume.