Many folks here asked questions about some introduction to Unix-like systems as they become more and more pertinent to our enterprise(see a discussion at http://www.corpus4u.org/showthread.php?t=5371). For those who are interested in working on Unix-like systems(FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Mac OS X,etc), I would recommend some books for you:
1. UNIX和Linux权威教程(第3版)(国外计算机科学经典教材)(UNIX Made Easy)
ISBN:7302060932
This is a comprehensive book on all (most) of the power tools (ls, sed,grep, awk, vi, etc)you might use on a daily basis if you are working on a Unix-like system. It's easy to follow and beginner-friendly. Although you won't learn any system-specific features in the book, these tools described in this book are so paramount that you cannot afford to ignore and the better way is to learn them as early as possible. Anyway, that's how I started my journey to a different world other than the Windows family. (well, to be fair, a good alternative is "Unix Power Tools" with more than 1200 pages from O'Reilly )
2. the second book is a bit difficult to choose as you would have to work on a specific system. All Unix-like systems are similar but they do differ from each other in certain ways. So search the books on them at www.amazon.com and find those with five stars and mostly positive comments. (However, if you are working on OpenBSD, don't miss Absolute OpenBSD by Lucas. )
1. UNIX和Linux权威教程(第3版)(国外计算机科学经典教材)(UNIX Made Easy)
ISBN:7302060932
This is a comprehensive book on all (most) of the power tools (ls, sed,grep, awk, vi, etc)you might use on a daily basis if you are working on a Unix-like system. It's easy to follow and beginner-friendly. Although you won't learn any system-specific features in the book, these tools described in this book are so paramount that you cannot afford to ignore and the better way is to learn them as early as possible. Anyway, that's how I started my journey to a different world other than the Windows family. (well, to be fair, a good alternative is "Unix Power Tools" with more than 1200 pages from O'Reilly )
2. the second book is a bit difficult to choose as you would have to work on a specific system. All Unix-like systems are similar but they do differ from each other in certain ways. So search the books on them at www.amazon.com and find those with five stars and mostly positive comments. (However, if you are working on OpenBSD, don't miss Absolute OpenBSD by Lucas. )
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