Unix for the Impatient

About this book

Thoroughly updated to account for recent developments the Second Edition of UNIX for the Impatient is an in-depth comprehensive guide to UNIX - a handbook you can use both for learning and as a ready reference. Clear concise and readable the book is written for the technically oriented UNIX user who doesnt want to wade through verbose tutorials but isnt already an expert. Its functional organization makes it easy to find the right tool for any task with a complete alphabetical summary providing fast lookup of commands options and subcommands. An extensive discussion of underlying UNIX concepts supplemented by a glossary enables even a UNIX beginner to penetrate the mysteries of UNIX terminology. The Second Edition is based on the IEEE POSIX.2 Standard now widely adopted by UNIX vendors and implementors. Descriptions of commands and facilities have been extensively revised to conform to the POSIX specifications and extended to cover the entire set of POSIX.2 user utilities. As before important System V BSD and GNU variations and enhancements are also presented.