[SLL] Linux training

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007, Glenn Stone wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 02:53:19PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>On Wed, Jul 18, 2007, Michael wrote:
>>>Thanks for all the comments everyone. The employee is coming from another
>>>company that was pure Windows and the only "training" he had was on his own.
>>>I'd like to make sure gaps are filled before I have him working on any of
>>>our production servers (of course I won't just be turning him lose anyway).
>>>I'm also trying to provide training as a benefit to employment at our
>>>company.
>>
>>How about giving him a box, a set of CDs, a book or two, and let him learn
>>by destroying on it?
>
>OK, the next logical question (checks his asbestos underoos)... 
>
>Which books?

The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike is still
one of the best for many things.

If you can find a copy of Unix Text Processing by O'Reilly and
Dougherty, it is probably the best I've found for many *nix
utilities including the only article on sed that was
understandable for its advanced features.

Bill
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