Download or read book UNIX in a Nutshell written by Daniel Gilly and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 1992 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may have seen UNIX quick-reference guides, but you've never seen anything likeUNIX in a Nutshell. Not a scaled-down quick reference of common commands,UNIX in a Nutshellis a complete reference containing all commands and options, along with generous descriptions and examples that put the commands in context. For all but the thorniest UNIX problems, this one reference should be all the documentation you need. The second edition ofUNIX in a Nutshellstarts with thorough coverage of System V Release 3. To that, we've added the many new commands that were added to Release 4 and additional commands that were added to Solaris 2.0. Contents include: All user and programmer commands. New Korn shell documentation. Expanded text editing section, including GNU Emacs andnawk. Shell syntax (shandcsh). Pattern-matching syntax. viandexcommands. sedandawkcommands. troffand related commands and macros. sdbanddbxcommands. If you currently use either SVR3 or SVR4 or are planning to in the future, or if you're a Sun user facing the transition to Solaris, you'll want this book.UNIX in a Nutshellis the most comprehensive quickref on the market, a must for any UNIX user.