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Old 04-19-2016
Hi.

When we moved from a mainframe environment to a UNIX(TM) environment, most of us used this by Kernighan and Pike:
The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series): Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike: 9780139376818: Amazon.com: Books

Later, they wrote another:
The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series): 9780201615869: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com

The first takes you from very basic stuff to software development tools, the second concentrates on productivity within that environment.

Because these are old, you should be able to find very inexpensive copies.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
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Old 04-19-2016
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Originally Posted by vectrum
Thanks. I've got the copy but it's more on programming philosophy.
This is true, but it is still the right book.

Unix is as much a collection of various APIs as it is a culture. Unix programs systematically react always "the same" in a very intricate way (the one which this book talks about) and even if you use all the APIs in an apparently correct way you might write a program which is "not UNIX" and will fit poorly into the rest (i have seen accomplished mainframe programmers do exactly that and the result was barely usable albeit being "correct" in some sense).

There are some books which have this lasting value - "Programming in the Unix Environment" is one of them and Raymonds' book is another. Here is another, centering on network programming, which plays a big role in a network-centered OS like UNIX:


"UNIX Network Programming", by W. Richard Stevens


If you budget is unlimited I'd also suggest the 3 volumes of "TCP/IP Illustrated" by the same author.

If you are interested in how a UNIX kernel is actually implemented there is one bible on this:

"Operating Systems Design and Implementation" by Andrew S. Tanenbaum


I hope this helps.

bakunin
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