Every month or two, someone asks me how they should go about learning Unix. The short answer is always “use it” or maybe as much as “use it — a lot.” But the detailed answer includes a lot of steps ...
An old book about an even older operating system.
If you are still learning Unix or have any involvement in helping others master the command line, here's the book you have been waiting for. The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction (no starch ...
Noting that Mac OS X has “turned unsuspecting Mac users into Unix users, too,” O’Reilly announced the publication of Dave Taylor and Brian Jepson’s “Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther” on Wednesday.
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...
O’Reilly & Associates has released “Learning Unix for Mac OS X,” a new US$19.95 book by Dave Taylor and Jerry Peek that offers an introduction to getting started with Unix functions on Mac OS X. The ...
Cron is nice and all, but don't forget about its cousin at. When I first started using Linux, it was like being tossed into the deep end of the UNIX pool. You were expected to use the command line ...