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  From bash to z shell: conquering the command line
Kiddle O., Peek J., Stephenson P., Peter S., APress, LP, 2004.  Type: Book (9781590593769)

This book covers the use of shells in general, and focuses on the Bourne again shell (bash) and z shell (zsh). From the title, I first thought the book was written to help users migrating from bash to zsh, but after reading a few pages...
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Mar 30 2005  
  Unix power tools (3rd ed.)
Powers S., Champeon S., Peek J., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2002. 1200 pp.  Type: Book (9780596003302), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Have you ever wondered how to get colors using the Unix ls command? Or why the command nice is called nice, and how the command nohup got its name? You need look no further than this book. ...
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Apr 8 2003  
  Learning Unix for Mac OS X
Taylor D., Peek J., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2002. 139 pp.  Type: Book (9780596003425), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Unix has had a reputation for being among the least user-friendly operating systems. Apple has built a reputation of having the most user-friendly operating systems. Mac OS X, then, seems a rather strange product: an Apple operating sy...
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Mar 31 2003  
  Unix power tools (3rd ed.)
Powers S., Champeon S., Peek J., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2002. 1200 pp.  Type: Book (9780596003302), Reviews: (1 of 2)

Contrary to my initial impression, this book is slightly thinner than the previous (second) edition [1]. However, it has been reorganized and reformatted, and comes across as very dense. The most obvious changes are the new provisions ...
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Mar 28 2003  
  Learning Unix for Mac OS X
Taylor D., Peek J., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2002. 139 pp.  Type: Book (9780596003425), Reviews: (1 of 2)

The Apple Macintosh (Mac) started out with a single-tasking operating system (OS). More recent versions of the Mac OS have supported multiple applications running concurrently, but it was not until the release of Mac OS X (pronounced ...
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Dec 20 2002  

 
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