Unix Book

[definityman]

Hi all,
in my company i'm managing 2 machines that are Unix based,
but i'm only able to work on the the application that is installed on those machines.
Can someone tell me if there is a good book that explains how to use Unix commands so that i can study on it and then try to use the commands ( i will do that not on my production machines but on a linux test machine) ?


Thanks

 

[KenCunningham]

O'Reilly's 'Unix in a nutshell' provides a good overview of commands and their purpose. I'd also recommend searching for Unix tutorials using Google - there's plenty of them out there! Cheers.

 

[greadey]

Unix Unleashed is a rather fat but good book to get overviews of UNIX commands.

 

[d3vNull]

Oreilly books IMO are the best resources to purchase and another good resource is the Unix Rossetta Stone (search google for it, the URL escapes me)

-j --d3vNull

 

[KenCunningham]

It's here:

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

and it's fine as a general reference, but not really for beginners as a certain amount of pre-knowledge is assumed.

 

[mrn]

If you want to learn what a sys admin does, read the following

"Essential System Administration" ISBN 1-56592-127-5
"Unix Shell Programming" ISBN 0-672-48448-X
"Vi Editor Pocket reference" ISBN 1-56592-497-5
"Sed & Awk" ISBN 1-56592-225-5
"Unix Backup & Recovery" ISBN 1-56592-642-0

All 5 of the above helped me no end in the beginning and are still a useful reference when I get memory loss (Which happens quite often)

Regards --
| Mike Nixon
| Unix Admin
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http://www.instantflashshop.com

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[Butterfly123]

What flavor of Unix r u using? Is it Linux / AIX / Solaris / HPUX?
There is a plenty of admin documentations on the vendors websites.. JUst checkout..

Regds,

- Hemant
Networking and Systems Integration Group
Satyam Computer Services Ltd

 

[mok123]

Hi definityman,

What flavor of Linux are u using ? You can do a search on the net for the specific Linux used in your system.

In the meantime, you might want to check out these sites :

http://www.linuxlots.com/~jam/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6582/index.htm

http://www.geocities.com/aboutlinux/

It is also recommended that you sign up in their forums like this one to help you further.

Good Luck

cheers

Mok

 

[definityman]

First, thanks to all for your suggestion.
Second, i need a book for learning Unix commands, how to use them but the main thing for me is to understand how Unix thinks.
I think that man cannot admionistrate a system well unless he understands how the system thinks.

The machine i'm managing are Sco Unix 2.1.2 ( yeah, i know that this version was made when the world was just created)

THX