Unix Command Guide

Phishfry · Dec 10, 2016

Unix Books.
I need a command guide for Unix commands.
Any recommendations?

Looking at this:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470376031.html

fernandel · Dec 10, 2016

I have and I am using Unix power tools:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003302.do
You can find 4th edition.

Phishfry · Dec 10, 2016

I see the 3rd Edition for cheap. Its from 2002 and I wonder if I should try and spend some money on this topic for a fresher book that is BSD specific like my choice? I am sure the base commands are the same but i worry about arguments. Even between BSD's there seems to be some divergence on arguments/option parameters.

fernandel · Dec 10, 2016

http://www.ws.afnog.org/afnog2006/e0/ha/freebsd/freebsdref1.pdf
http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification/bsdacommandreference.pdf

It is free.

Phishfry · Dec 10, 2016

Nice pdf's but the one command i did not know is not on either list.
jot

forquare · Dec 10, 2016

While doing my dissertation I found UNIX in a nutshell invaluable. Though it is somewhat old, much of it still seems relevant (or did the last time I delved into it).

More recently I've relied far more heavily on man pages.

SirDice · Dec 12, 2016

Not a book but it can be quite helpful: http://bhami.com/rosetta.html (Rosetta Stone for Unix).

I use it regularly as I have to deal with all sorts of variants.

Phishfry · Jan 23, 2017

The Orielly books are really superb. I just picked up this for cheap.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565921320.do
Using csh & tcsh

The older books actually seem more concise and to the point.
The Orielly curses book was the same way. Not many pages and not too overwhelming. Easy to read.

drhowarddrfine · Jan 23, 2017

man jot works pretty good.

kafka0 · Feb 6, 2017

fernandel said:
I have and I am using Unix power tools:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003302.do
You can find 4th edition.

I second this: UNIX Power Tools is a great resource and a great read (although I'm not sure there's a fourth edition; I think the third is the last one). However, make no mistake: this isn't a reference manual, prefer the Nutshell book mentioned by forquare if this is what you're after. Apart from that, I must say that I've always wanted BSD Hacks to be a fun way to learn more about the BSDs, but it always came short, no matter what I wanted to find in it.

fernandel · Feb 6, 2017

kafka0 said:
I second this: UNIX Power Tools is a great resource and a great read (although I'm not sure there's a fourth edition; I think the third is the last one). However, make no mistake: this isn't a reference manual, prefer the Nutshell book mentioned by forquare if this is what you're after. Apart from that, I must say that I've always wanted BSD Hacks to be a fun way to learn more about the BSDs, but it always came short, no matter what I wanted to find in it.

I have BSD Hacks and it helped me a lot.

daemontrainer · Feb 9, 2017

Phishfry
"Unix operating system development guide tutorial via unix kernel services" is my personal favorite. Its written in a very good mix of theory and practice IMO.
But BSD hacks and Unix powertools are nice too. Absolute FreeBSD and Absolute OpenBSD are also good.
To be honest thought, its a personal preference thing I think = |

Also the awk book and other unix scripting books might help a lot as well.

P.S. Sidenote. fernandel
So I looked at that BSD cert link, than went to just /certification which lead me to this wiki
http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Table_of_Contents.html
Why... is "changing the banner" is part of security section? Oo lol I get that motd is useful, but... security section?

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