UNIX
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
1.
To learn the UNIX user interface:
Mike
McGrath, UNIX in Easy Steps: commanding the Bash shell, IN Easy Steps Limited,
2014. (www.ineasysteps.com)
A good inexpensive book for beginners. It covers the bash shell and lists
120+ UNIX commands.
Deborah S. Ray and Eric S. Ray, UNIX (2nd edition), Peachpit
Press, Berkeley, CA. 2003.
This small book covers a wide
variety of shells, text editors and UNIX tools. It is well organized and will
not send you to the poorhouse.
2.
To teach yourself UNIX system programming:
Mark J. Rochkind, Advanced UNIX Programming (2nd edition),
Addison-Wesley, 2004.
The book is a recently upgraded
version of a very old classic. The author worked at
Kay
A. Robbins and Steven Robbins, Practical
UNIX Programming: A Guide to Concurrency. Communication and
Multithreading. Prentice Hall,
The book is a good introduction to
UNIX system programming. Like the previous one, it is the kind of book you want
to have on hand when you work on your assignments.
3.
To learn more about UNIX:
Marshall
Kirk McKusick and George V. Neville-Neil, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD
Operating System. Addison-Wesley,
This
is FreeBSD version 5.3 presented by its Great Architect. Even though the book
will not help you with 4330 assignments, it is worth its sixty dollars.
4.
To learn about LINUX:
Graham
Glass and King Ables, LINUX for Programmers and Users.
Pearson Prentice-Hall,
As
it title indicates, this book covers a lot of ground. It has a very good
coverage of the various UNIX/LINUX shells, describes in some detail the most
important UNIX tools, has a chapter on LINUX internals and even an introduction
to system programming (but it does not cover IPC-related systems calls)
Updated on Wednesday, January 13, 2016.