Recommended books for CS114: Unix Tools, Fall 2007

There is no required textbook for this course.

In past iterations of this course, the first two books especially have been recommended. The first, Andersen, is more tutorial in nature, good if you have had little experience with computers. The second, Robbins, is a reference, good to have handy. All but the first are available electronically, if you don't mind reading onscreen. For all the eBooks, you must connect from a Cornell network; apparently many of them don't work on a Mac using Safari.

• Just Enough Unix, 4th Edition, P. K. Andersen (on reserve in Engineering library (Carpenter))
• UNIX in a Nutshell, A. Robbins (eBook, another eBook).
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to UNIX, B. Wagner (eBook)
• Learning the UNIX Operating System, G. Todino, et. al. (eBook)
• Practical UNIX J. Koch, et. al. (eBook)
• Mastering Unix Shell Scripting, R. K. Michael (eBook)
• UNIX Shell Programming Tools, D. Medinets (eBook, eBook)
• Sed & Awk Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins (eBook, pocket reference eBook).
• Learning the vi Editor L. Lamb and A. Robbins (eBook)
• GNU Emacs Pocket Reference D. Cameron (eBook)