[Ti] Spinning beachballs

[Mark C. Langston]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:03:49PM -0800, Sherman Gregory wrote:
> 
> You might like the O'Reilly book "Learning Unix for Mac OS X, 2nd 
> Edition" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx2/  for your next 
> step in learning Unix.  It seems like there are hundreds of books on 
> Unix out there.  I don't know which is best.  There is so much to 
> learn about Unix that I really don't believe anyone really "knows 
> Unix".
> 


Probably the most useful ones would be:

Unix System Administration Handbook, Nemeth, et al

(the following are all O'Reilly books):

Essential System Administration Pocket Reference
Essential System Administration, 3rd Ed.
Learning the bash shell
Learning the vi editor
vi editor Pocket Reference
sed & awk
sed & awk procket reference
using csh & tcsh
When You Can't Find your Unix System Administrator


I've used all of these at one time or another over the past 12 years.
I recommended more than one shell book because shells tend to offer
different things to different people, and both csh and bash are
available on OS X.

The Nemeth book has long been a cornerstone of introductory Unix admin
training.

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Mark C. Langston                                    Sr. Unix SysAdmin
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Systems & Network Admin                                SETI Institute
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