Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Final Release Date: August 1997
Pages: 1122
Ideal for UNIX users who hunger for technical -- yet accessible -- information,UNIX Power Tools, 2nd Edition, consists of tips, tricks, concepts, and freeware (CD-ROM included). It also covers add-on utilities and how to take advantage of clever features in the most popular UNIX utilities.Loaded with even more practical advice about almost every aspect of UNIX, this edition addresses the technology that UNIX users face today, differing from the first edition in a number of important ways.First, it slants the blend of options and commands more toward the POSIX utilities, including the GNU versions; the bash and tcsh shells have greater coverage, but we've kept the first edition's emphasis on the core concepts of sh and csh that will help you use all UNIX shells; and, Perl is more important than awk these days, so we've de-emphasizedawk in this edition.This is a browser's book...like a magazine that you don't read from start to finish, but leaf through repeatedly until you realize that you've read it all. The book is structured so that it bursts at the seams with cross references. Interesting "sidebars" explore syntax or point out other directions for exploration, including relevant technical details that might not be immediately apparent. You'll find articles abstracted from other O'Reilly books, new information that highlights program "tricks" and "gotchas," tips posted to the Net over the years, and other accumulated wisdom.The 53 chapters in this book discuss topics like file management, text editors, shell programming -- even office automation. Overall, there's plenty of material here to satisfy even the most voracious appetites. The bottom line? UNIX Power Tools is loaded with practical advice about almost every aspect of UNIX. It will help you think creatively about UNIX, and will help you get to the point where you can analyze your own problems. Your own solutions won't be far behind.The CD-ROM includes all of the scripts and aliases from the book, plusperl, GNU emacs, netpbm (graphics manipulation utilities),ispell,screen, the sc spreadsheet, and about 60 other freeware programs. In addition to the source code, all the software is precompiled for Sun4, Digital UNIX, IBM AIX, HP/UX, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, and SCO UNIX.
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- Title:
- UNIX PowerTools, 2nd Edition
- By:
- Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
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- Print:
- August 1997
- Pages:
- 1122
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-56592-260-0
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- 1-56592-260-3
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Jerry Peek is a long time user of the Unix operating system. He has acted as a Unix consultant, courseware developer, and instructor. He is one of the originating authors of Unix Power Tools and the author of Learning the Unix Operating System by O'Reilly. View Jerry Peek's full profile page. -
Tim O'Reilly Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long term vision for his company is to help change the world by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of innovators. View Tim O'Reilly's full profile page. -
Mike Loukides Mike Loukides is an editor for O'Reilly & Associates. He is the author of System Performance Tuning and UNIX for FORTRAN Programmers. Mike's interests are system administration, networking, programming languages, and computer architecture. His academic background includes degrees in electrical engineering (B.S.) and English literature (Ph.D.). View Mike Loukides's full profile page. |
Colophon Edie Freedman designed this book's cover, and Hanna Dyer designed the CD label, using QuarkXPress running on a PowerMacintosh. The drill image was photographed by Ms. Freedman and retouched using Adobe Photoshop. The drill itself is a Miller's Falls "Dyno-Mite" Model A, circa 1950s. Edie Freedman also designed the page layout and the margin icons, which were created on a Macintosh computer and captured as encapsulated PostScript files. The icon graphics were bound to custom troff macros for formatting. Text was prepared using the SoftQuad sqtroff text formatter. Lenny Muellner modified and developed the troff macros necessary to implement the book design, including cross-referencing and indexing. The body of the book is set in ITC Garamond typeface. The examples are set in Courier, Courier Bold, and Courier Italic typefaces. Headings and captions are set in Helvetica Bold Condensed Oblique typeface. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 5.5 by Chris Reilley. Whenever possible, our books use RepKover?, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit, perfect binding is used. |
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