Books

There are a number of interesting books that you might like to look at. They are mentioned here, with links to Amazon where available. A number are available used (i.e. cheaper!)

You may wish to try http://www.bookfinder.com, which searches other bookshops too, and can result in a lower price.

• Lions' Commentary on UNIX with Source Code by John Lions (probably the most photocopied computer science book of all time). See below for an adequate online equivalent.
• Classic Shell Scripting: Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power of Unix. This is an excellent tutorial and reference for use of the shell, and shell scripting (programming).
• Using csh & tcsh: Work Faster, Type Less. This is another good book - this time about the C shell, and its development, tcsh. This shell makes you even more productive at the command line!
• Operating Systems Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum (the latest edition of his book about the Minix system).
• The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System - Third Edition by Marshall Kirk McKusick et al. (the definitive book on the inner workings of FreeBSD).
• In the Beginning...Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself). See below for a download link. Not strictly UNIX, but a good read, covering UNIX and the whole free software concept as well as ranting at Microsoft.

Other documents

Here are some additional documents for download. In some cases, these are PDFs of books that are either out of print, or where the author has agreed to provide a free download.

• The UNIX-HATER's Handbook by Simson Garfinkle et al. (an amusing, but actually very instructive, critique of UNIX). The cover isn't included, but it's worth seeing, so you can find that here.
• In The Beginning...Was the Command Line (see above for details of the book; this is just the downloadable text).
• The John Lions commentary and the John Lions source code about v6 UNIX are available electronically. They are not quite the same as the book, but near enough!