I'm new to Unix. I'm just looking for really good unix documents through Internet as pdf format on programming in all shells, and system adminstrator documents, and well as just all around really good documents on unix.

Thank you

Here are a few posts with links.

Unix Tutorial

Beginner Advice?

You can go to www.perl.com or http://www.whereisit.com/shellscript/index2.html
http://oase-shareware.org/shell/

A very good Perl tutorial here.
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/


where can I find this


System Maintenance

If your wanting to give FreeBSD a go you could try here or have a look at some of the FreeBSD links on my site.
If you do follow the BSD path, the Handbook is a really great help.

faaarin,

Here are a few links that I have collected over the years. I hope they are as helpful to you as they have been to me.

UNIX (General)
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ - Dennis Ritchie's homepage (one of the founders of UNIX). Good information on origin and history of UNIX.

UNIX (System Admin)
http://www.astro.uni-frankfurt.de/~R...sysadmin.shtml - an extensive collection of system admin links

http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/sysadm.../sysadm-1.html

UNIX (Shell Scripting)
http://unix.ittoolbox.com/nav/t.asp?t=393&p=393&h1=393

Good luck!

Biker,

The collection is nice. Good work!!!!!!!

Hopefully, this list would help lot of starters.

Here is a very solid link I left off the first time:

http://pluto.phys.nwu.edu/~zhaoyj/le...system/toc.htm

You may want to check this one out first...

Biker
Systems/Network Administrator
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