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From: jim@anacom1.UUCP (Jim Bacon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: HELP ME PLEASE!!!
Message-ID: <662@anacom1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 90 22:23:40 GMT
References: <47290@bsu-ucs.uucp> <7@rdb1.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@anacom1.UUCP (Jim Bacon, CPD Manager)
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In article <7@rdb1.UUCP> rbarrell@rdb1.UUCP (rbarrell) writes:
>In article <47290@bsu-ucs.uucp>, 00smyork@bsu-ucs.uucp (SOME PEOPLE SNIFF GLUE OTHERS SNIFF TAPE) writes:
>> I just got into unix and need someone to tell me how to use it if
>> anyone would take the time I'd be grateful.  
>
>Steve,
>     As has been mentioned, the best way to learn unix is to start using it.
[....]
>Toward this end, I have a few suggestions of possible reading/reference
>materials which have been of tremendous help to me, even when I just started
>unix/xenix five years ago.  
[....]
>     The next which, by the title, may sound surprising is the book _Tricks of
>the Unix Masters_ by Russell G. Sage, which is published by Sams.  Even though
>the title SOUNDS complicated, and even though some of the scripts in it are not
>the simplest in the world, all of the material provides excellent examples from
>which to learn.

I would add _The UNIX Programming Enivironment_, [Kernighan/Pike,
Prentice-Hall, pub.] as a very good reference.  The first three chapters
contain one of the best tutorials I have evr come across on the use and
spirit of UNIX.

Besides the turorial, the book goes on to introduce the reader to shell
scripts, C, and awk.

This is certainly a gook hands-on learning book and I reccommend it
highly.

-- 
Jim Bacon                            | "A computer's attention span is only
Anacom General Corp., CA             |  as long as its extension cord."
jim@anacom1.cpd.com                  |
lawnet!anacom1!jim                   |                                 Anon