The UNIX Programming Environment

By Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike

Book Overview

Designed for first-time and experienced users, this book describes the UNIX? programming environment and philosophy in detail. Readers will gain an understanding not only of how to use the system, its components, and the programs, but also how these fit into the total environment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 013937681X
• ISBN13: 9780139376818
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

How to think programmatically

How is it that a book from 1984 based on a legacy Unix system, describing some tools that no one would now use, can still not only be in print but actually recommended?In introducing you to the Unix system, from simple shell commands, to shell scripts, to awk and sed programming, and to Unix applications programming, not to mention the best introduction to lex and yacc, the authors develop real applications and teach you how...

The UNIX Book

Albeit this book was published in 1984 and when I started learning UNIX some ten years later, many of minor details were already a bit out-of-date, I believe that it will still be a marvel for those who work on modern UNIX/Linux systems, since the details are ever changing, the commands may differ from system to system, but the philosophy behind the UNIX technology stays the same, and this is what this book is all about. Written...

wonderful book, but dated

This is the book that turned me on to UNIX. Actually at the time I read this book, I was burned out on computer programming in general and was thinking about moving into physics. Then I read this book. It illustrated very clearly the power and elegance of UNIX. As a result I regained my interest in computers, which in retrospect, turned out to be a very good thing.Unfortunately this book is System V-centric and doesn't...

Oldies but goldies

Merely half an inch thick, and employing the same cover design - or lack of it - as the C Programming Language, this is probably the least pretentious looking book on my bookshelf. However, the look is misleading - there are very few books, regardless of length, that aim to teach you as much as this one, and even fewer than succeed in it.Unix programming environment might sound a rather ambitious title nowadays, when a...