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"UNIX in a Nutshell", Gilly, 1992, 1-56592-001-5
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The subtitle, "A Desktop Quick Reference for UNIX," is probably more accurate
than the title.  It is almost UNIX in a Nutshell, but in reference format.

A very handy desktop reference to have.  If you are familiar with UNIX, it
would probably be faster to use this guide than to search through pages of man
references.  Part one gives an alphabetical summary of commands (complete with
most options), along with a comparative overview, and details, of the Bourne,
Korn and C shells.  Part two, on text editing, covers pattern matching, emacs,
vi, ex sed and awk.  Part three covers text formatting with nroff, troff,
preprocessors and the mm, ms, and me macros.  Part four, software development,
explains SCCS, RCS, make and debugging.

Strangely silent is any mention of the communications and networking functions
(other than in the alphabetical summary).  One can understand the bias that
would place formatting before communications, coming from a publishing house,
but I suspect a significant number of users would have those priorities
reversed.

The preface specifically states that this is not an introductory tutorial, but
for most other users of UNIX this should be a valuable and handy guide.

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