Really sweet read and the way things are put in a platter makes it very pleasurable to read. A good way to kick start with UNIX...covers a wide range of topics and a good friendly introduction to the UNIX systems (for in depth knowledge you have the man pages)!!!

I have been working on Solaris for about 10 years now. I purchased this book initially when I started off my career in Unix. It really helped me understand the concepts then. I wanted to brush up on my knowledge and once again recently and decided to go for this book once again. I see that the book has not lost its relevance despite so many changes that have happened over the years. By far, this would be the only Unix book that you will need for accomplishing most of the practical work that y...

Nothing much to say about this book. It is a very well known book. Very popular between B.Tech WBUT students.
Nice simple and easy way to understand unix for the first time.
I love this book.

when I have stared learning Solaris for one of my official assignments.

One of my friends suggested this book.I am benefitted a lot from this book.

Now I am able to handle my solaris server and can retrieve any information required for my day to day tasks.

it covers most of the unix programs like AWK,SED,Grep , Egrep and programming languages like perl.

main features of this book are .


1.great help for beginners.


2.well organised


3.simple english


4.covers many commands with simp...

excellent book..very indepth...if you can complete this book you will become a good linux admin and a very good shell scripting writer.
I positively recommend this book for every one.

Very lucid explanations from scratch.... U want to learn UNIX u can with this book without a teacher.... best practice is to install UNIX in a system so as to get hands on experience regarding the behavior of the various commands illustrated as UNIX, for all the vast command set it has can be learnt by applying them...

I am a novice for Unix. This book was suggested to me by one of my collegue and I would like to say it is very nice book for beginners like me. Still half finished. A lot to learn. Then I would able to add up. I ordered it on Flipkart and got it the very next day. So 10 out 10 to flipkart for timely delivery.

Excellent book for Unix End users, The book is very good for all unix learner, I have used this book and found Simple and very useful

It's an excellent book for end users of Unix OS.
Introduces you to basics of Unix OS, Shells, commands and gives good insights.
I found it more useful than its later edition.

Key features includes:

• Language used by Sumitabha Das in this reference book is very simple.
• Multiple examples to support the topic being discussed.
• This book may be helpful to beginners as well as experienced person in UNIX/Linux platform.
• It covers most of the syllabus of many board/universities.
• I am using its 3rd edition to teach UNIX/Linux to my students.