A guide to modern UNIX systems

[danieldk]

The first snapshot of my book is now available online. It will be released in a "release early, release often" fashion. This means that there is only little content now, but I will keep the snapshot updates as I add content. The current snapshot is available from:

http://www.taickim.com/books/unixsystems/html/

I'll try to post every now and then in this topics if there are updates concerning the book. Have fun!

[AndreL]

Darn good work, Daniel.

Thanks.

[fos]

Excellent work!

Thank you

[bhobjj]

WoW
Thanks

What do you have planned for the book?

[danieldk]

Complete coverage of UNIX for users (no system administration, hopefully that's for part II), including vi/emacs, version control, and LaTeX.

When it's finished, it should be available on the web and on paper (via Lulu I think) under a liberal license. I plan to purchase an ISBN number from Lulu, that would be cool :).

[fos]

Whenever the hard copy is availble let us all know. I would certainly like to add it to my collection.

fos

[danieldk]

Thanks for all the kind comments! :) I'll let you guys know when the printed version is available. For the meanwhile:

Updates:

- Added a section about Access Control Lists (ACLs). I'll go over this a few more times. ACL compatibility between Unices is a complete mess.

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PS. I could probably use the help from one or two people to test things when the book is finished. But I'll drop a note when the time comes.

[morgoth]

As usual, good work Daniel. Have you tried sending your writings to No starch press or O'Reilly's?

Dave

PS I'm also looking at lulu.com to get a book of my images published ;)

[danieldk]

As usual, good work Daniel. Have you tried sending your writings to No starch press or O'Reilly's?

I'd like to run my own small bussiness, not that of $MEGACORP (ok, No starch is small ;)).

PS I'm also looking at lulu.com to get a book of my images published ;)

They have interesting offers :).

[danieldk]

Added sections about:

- find
- which
- whatis
- locate

[lurch]

First rate work, Daniel. I would also be interested to obtain a hard copy.

Phillip.

[danieldk]

Added sections about:

- cat
- tr

[danieldk]

Added sections about:

- diff
- patch

[danieldk]

Added a section about sort. Maybe al text-processing related commands will be covered by the end of December ;). (Minus awk.)

[danieldk]

- Added sections about 'cut' and 'paste'.

Besides that the sources and Mercurial repository are now available.

[danieldk]

- Added a section about 'grep'.

[Leon]

Nice work, indeed. I'll be going through this in detail in the coming weeks as I play (again) with FreeBSD.

[danieldk]

Pfew, it has been a while. I have added sections about POSIX regular expressions, and put some parts for the process management chapter in place. I didn't have much time the last few months, considering these constraints it has been progressing nicely.

[fos]

Very nice!!!!

fos