Description: Empowering users from the start, this stimulating, hands-on guide to learning Unix takes a proactive approach with a step-by step format that makes graduating to higher skill levels of command execution seem effortless. Each carefully tailored unit presents practical sample sessions, interactive experiments, and continuously running examples, and there are myriad practice venues throughout. Provides a sample session section in each unit that gives users the opportunity to study commands and see how they are used before actively trying them out, plus an experiment section that enables users to execute commands directly on their terminals and actively study the results. Offers exceptionally broad and thorough coverage, with an entire chapter devoted to what an operating system is and it's concepts; intensive discussions on such topics as piping, networking and environment variables; a full chapter on shell programming, and more.

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