Unix in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference for System V Release 4 and Solaris 7

The bestselling, most informative UNIX reference book is now more complete and up-to-date. You may have seen UNIX quick-reference guides, but you've never seen anything like UNIX in a Nutshell. Not a scaled-down quick reference of common commands, UNIX in a Nutshell is a complete reference containing all commands and options, along with generous descriptions and examples that put the commands in context. For all but the thorniest UNIX problems, this one reference should be all the documentation you need. The third edition of UNIX in a Nutshell includes thorough coverage of System V Release 4. To that, author Arnold Robbins has added the latest information about: Sixty new commands in The Alphabetical Summary of Commands Solaris 7 Shell syntax (sh, csh, and the 1988 and 1993 versions of ksh) Regular expression syntax vi and ex commands, as well as newly updated Emacs information sed and awk commands troff and related commands and macros, with a new section on refer make, RCS (version 5.7), and SCCS commands Obsolete commands In addition, there is a new UNIX bibliography to guide the reader to further reading about the UNIX environment. If you currently use UNIX SVR4, or if you're a Solaris user, you'll want this book. UNIX in a Nutshell is the most comprehensive quick reference on the market, a must for any UNIX user.

Table of Contents:
Preface. PART 1: Commands and Shells Chapter 1. Introduction Merging the Traditions Bundling What's in the Quick Reference Beginner's Guide Guide for Users of BSD-Derived Systems Solaris: Standard Compliant Programs. Chapter 2. Unix Commands Alphabetical Summary of Commands. Chapter 3. The Unix Shell: An Overview Introduction to the Shell Purpose of the Shell Shell Flavors Common Features Differing Features. Chapter 4. The Bourne Shell and Korn Shell Overview of Features Syntax Variables Arithmetic Expressions Command History Job Control Invoking the Shell Restricted Shells Built-in Commands (Bourne and Korn Shells). Chapter 5. The C Shell Overview of Features Syntax Variables Expressions Command History Job Control Invoking the Shell Built-in C Shell Commands PART 2: Text Editing and Processing. Chapter 6. Pattern Matching Filenames Versus Patterns Metacharacters, Listed by Unix Program Metacharacters Examples of Searching. Chapter 7. The Emacs Editor Introduction Summary of Commands by Group Summary of Commands by Key Summary of Commands by Name. Chapter 8. The vi Editor Review of vi Operations Movement Commands Edit Commands Saving and Exiting Accessing Multiple Files Interacting with Unix Macros Miscellaneous Commands Alphabetical List of Keys Setting Up vi Chapter 9. The ex Editor Syntax of ex Commands Alphabetical Summary of ex Commands. \Chapter 10. The sed Editor Conceptual Overview Command-Line Syntax Syntax of sed Commands Group Summary of sed Commands Alphabetical Summary of sed Commands. Chapter 11. The awk Programming Language Conceptual Overview Command-Line Syntax Patterns and Procedures Built-in Variables Operators Variables and Array Assignments User-Defined Functions Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands Implementation Limits Alphabetical Summary of Functions and Commands PART 3: Text Formatting Chapter 12. nroff and troff Introduction Command-Line Invocation Conceptual Overview Default Operation of Requests Group Summary of Requests Alphabetical Summary of Requests Escape Sequences Predefined Registers Special Characters. Chapter 13. mm Macros Alphabetical Summary of mm Macros Predefined String Names Number Registers Used in mm Other Reserved Macro and String Names Sample Document Chapter 14. ms Macros Alphabetical Summary of ms Macros Number Registers for Page Layout Reserved Macro and String Names Reserved Number Register Names Sample Document Chapter 15. me Macros Alphabetical Summary of me Macros Predefined Strings Predefined Number Registers Sample Document Chapter 16. man Macros Alphabetical Summary of man Macros Predefined Strings Internal Names Sample Document. Chapter 17. troff Preprocessors tbl eqn pic refer. PART 4: Software Development Chapter 18. The Source Code Control System Introduction Overview of Commands Basic Operation Identification Keywords Data Keywords Alphabetical Summary of SCCS Commands sccs and Pseudo-Commands. Chapter 19. The Revision Control System Overview of Commands Basic Operation General RCS Specifications Conversion Guide for SCCS Users Alphabetical Summary of Commands. Chapter 20. The make Utility Conceptual Overview Command-Line Syntax Description File Lines Macros Special Target Names Writing Command Lines Sample Default Macros, Suffixes, and Rules PART 5: Appendixes Appendix A. ASCII Character Set Appendix B. Obsolete Commands Glossary Index

About the Author :
Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional programmer and technical author. He is also a happy husband, the father of four very cute children, and an amateur Talmudist (Babylonian and Jerusalem). Since late 1997, he and his family have been living happily in Israel. Arnold has been working with UNIX systems since 1980, when he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition UNIX. He has been a heavy awk user since 1987, when he became involved with gawk, the GNU project's version of awk. As a member of the POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for awk. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. The documentation is available from the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org) and has also been published by SSC (http://www.ssc.com) as Effective AWK Programming. O'Reilly has been keeping him busy: He is co-author of the second edition of O'Reilly's sed&awk, and of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi Editor.