I think the best way to learn UNIX is to buy the book, "Unix in a
NutShell" by O'Reily. Start at page one and try every command listed A-Z. Even though you will probably never use half of them, it will still give you a good lesson on how it works. The man pages were written for the UNIX savy and not for beginners. It will just frustrate you. Oh yea stay away from any of the books that end with "for Dummies.
Blasphemy! If you don't learn to at least try to read the man pages, you'll soon find that people will refer you to the old RTFM acronym...
Linux in a Nutshell is more of a reference, and although a little nicer that the man pages, won't help that much more. Nearly any book by O'Reilly, though, is good.
Hi guys,
New member here, also new student!
I'm just starting the Shell Programming, currently in chapter four in the Book in Unix, Linux, and OS X by Stephen G. Kochan & Patrick Wood (4th edition).
I'm needing a little help with other possible ways to shorten this shell command:
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Hello All,
Real Newbie to AIX
I need to automate an FTP server to Server.
Want to push the files from an AIX server to an OSX server.
What would be the best command in AIX to do this?
Need help copying contents of \UVdata to 172.16.12.2\ERAbackup\1
Or Alternatively would it be better... (1 Reply)
a task given to me is to make a shell which will have the following qualities....
"The most rudimentary shell is structured as the following loop:
1. Print out a prompt (e.g., "OS_Spring2011_Shell$ ");
2. Read a line from the user;
3. Parse the line into the program name and an array of... (2 Replies)
hi every body, i am ramesh.
i want write about this shell program (" i have 94 server's like aix, solaris, linux, hp-ux, and sco unix-") how to get mail's from these server's?
(i have personal linux system)- i want to run this program in my personal linux system continuously.
i want to... (4 Replies)
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I'm not so sure that this thread should have been closed. Though it was clearly homework the student was asking a specific question related to the assignment, but not the answer to the whole assignment.
/www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/107494-how-get-rid.html .
IMHO The solution is... (1 Reply)
I am a fresh learner of unix,and hope for some help here.