Learning UNIX

[Dav]

HI,

Does anyone have any websites, books, etc that they recommend? I can do stuff like ssh and sftp, ls, mv, man, apropos, etc. I also know how to do stuff like save output to a file using >.

Thanks

[tom]

What variant of UNIX were you thinking of? I've read both Absolute
FreeBSD and Absolute OpenBSD by M.W.Lucas, and they are very good but
obviously if you're interested in GNU/Linux or Solaris they won't be
as useful. My best suggestion would be install a *NIX onto a machine
that you use (not a VM) and use it as much as you can.

[Roland Latour]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:55:23 -0700, Dav wrote:
> Does anyone have any websites, books, etc that they recommend?

oreilly.com/linux/index.html is a good place to start. Especially
the 'in a nutshell' series. Or 'made easy'.

I learned Unix in the 1980s by reading man pages when they
were actually printed on paper. You may want to go thru /usr/bin
and start with manpages for commands that interest you.

If you're interested in programming, take the time to learn
emacs. If you're a user, learn vi and bash. I think the manpage
for bash is the biggest there is.

[Bradley K. Sherman]

Linux-centric but totally free:
_The Linux Command Line_ by William E. Shotts, Jr.
<http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php>

--bks

[Aragorn]

On Friday 31 August 2012 02:42, Bradley K. Sherman conveyed the
following to comp.unix.questions...

And considering that this branch of the thread touches upon GNU/Linux
specifically - not that GNU Bash cannot be installed on other UNIXen -
there's also this very informative and free on-line guide...

The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide (HowTo)

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

And let's not forget the RUTE ("Root User's Tutorial and Exposition"),
at...

http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

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= Aragorn =
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)