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UNIX Power Tools

By: Jerry D. Peek Tim O'Reilly Mike Loukides
Binding: Software
Publisher: O'Reilly
Released: 02 Oct 1997
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Great examples and excellent for referencing. - By: Mr. D. E. Mayfield, 19 Mar 2008
Still a great book... A real joy to read ( for any geek ). Constantly shown how to save key stokes & the power of gnu tools. I now insist on having cygwin on windows so I can utilise the ease of control gained from reading this book.... This book is the best I've seen for layout & referencing.... It spoils you for reading other books. I read oreily's bash & regex after this & felt I had wasted my time because this book had covered so much, any extra details I could have just googled.
A must for all users who are serious about unix - By: Wai Ming Pang, 23 Dec 2002
There isn't a single unix book better than this, but if you are an unix adminstrator like the previous guy who review the book, you're looking at the wrong book. This book has earned it's book title with pride.

I have had the book for over 5 years, i still refer to it now & again, i am a developer & have found that I was not leveraging the full potential for the operating system, however this book puts me back on track. I have had 3 years of unix exp. before buying the book most of the elementary thing i didn't need & other stuff was not appealing at first, I expected more, but there is more just that i didn't know until I had more commercial experience.

Another Legendary Book - By: , 22 Mar 2002
Very occasionallly a book is written about or for Unix System Administration, or Unix in general. If the author or publishers get the mix right it receives acclaim. Very, very occasionallly one of those books achieves legendary status, by finding its way onto 98% of alll Unix Sysadmins book shelves.

This book is one of those legendary tomes. Just about every Unix Sysadmin I know has a copy of this sitting alongside books like Evi Nemeth's "Unix Sys Admin Handbook". OK so it has a lot of information that isn't new to most sysadmins, but that's not where the beauty of the book lies. The real treasure is found in the countless nuggets of Unix info that have been long since forgotten, or yet to be learned.

In my humble opinion, a true Unix Classic! If like me, you earn a living from Unix, then think of this book as a carpenter would his set of chisels. You don't use them for every job, but when needed, can prove invaluable.

If you already know Unix then you won't need this book! - By: , 10 Dec 2001
I own a pretty impressive amount of books covering alll aspects of Unix, but i have to say this book left me very dissapointed.

I decided to buy Unix Power Tools after reading alll the reviews that seemed to suggest that i cannot live without Unix Power Tools.

But i feel O'reilly let me down with this one. Unix Power Tools is not up to the usual high standard of O'reilly books.

The main problem i have with this book is the price. I have much better books on Unix for less than half the price of Unix Power Tools. The title seems to suggest that this book will unleash the power of Unix, but i realy feel that this is manual for beginers.

I am sure that i would have apreciated this book more if i had bought it 2 years ago when i started learning unix, but after playing with unix for 2 years & working in system administration, i feel this book should be re-named 'Unix Tools For Beginners'.

Normallly when i buy a book that i don't like i give it away to a charity shop with the hope that it may benifit someome who cannot afford to splash out the high prices of certain books, But i will give Unix power tools the chance to redeem itself. I will alllow this book the honour of resting on my book shelf alongside the much more worthy unix manuals in the hope that one day Unix Power Tools may provide me with some important bit of information that the other superior unix manuals are lacking.

O'reilly needs to think more carefully about the pricing of its books.

Outstanding ! - By: , 18 Jul 2000
I purchased the first edition when I saw it May 1993. It proved invaluable, I used that first edition so much it fell apart. I have since replaced it with the second edition which is also starting to look well used.

This book is the best Unix book I have ever come across & would recommend it to anyone & everyone.