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This is a very nice book for novice unix users.

This book put everything in perspective/context. It starts with a short history of Linux/Unix/GNU and the relation between each other.

It is also a very complete book. It covers the main commands, editors, shell programming, et. cetera.

The nice thing (especially for novice people), is that there are a lot of examples with a description what it does. The examples are very usable. Because a lot of examples use multiple commands this book can also been seen as a cookbook how you can do certain task using e.g. the command line interface.

So this book is not one big printed man pages (a lot of other books are).

One little disadvantage is that this book need some updating. E.g. CVS is covered but the emerging Subversion not. Maybe it is a good idea to cover also subversion in the next edition.
Rating: 5
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