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I remember that I read a book with the main UNIX commands plus a vi tutorial and then a lot of manpages. That was in the second half of the 80s.
by pmontra 3y ago
I remember that I read a book with the main UNIX commands plus a vi tutorial and then a lot of manpages. That was in the second half of the 80s.
- JdeBP 3y agoOnly one? (-: I read Foxley's Unix for Superusers, the Unix Text Processing book, and a couple of other books.
- pmontra 3y agoBooks remained current for a longer time back then but it was already clear to me that they are not the way to go. Manpages were current. Experimenting is the way to learn stuff. Books as references have been basically dead since 1994 and the first websites with Javadocs IMHO.
- JdeBP 3y agoThe numerous similar books, now about Linux, that have been published in the first quarter of the 21st century indicates that your humble opinion is out of step with reality. (-: