“The Unix System” by S R Bourne ISBN 0-201-13791-7 1982
Yes 1982, it is old, written by the original author of the Bourne Shell (sh). Bash is backwards compatible with sh.
Chapters 2 Getting started
3 Editing files
4 The shell
are a really good introduction.
also Chapter 8 Data Manipulation tools awk, cmp, diff, grep, sed, sort, tail, uniq, …
So for those who would like to learn CLI, this is a good place to start. I used it to train many computer technicians.
There are secondhand copies readily available (see abebooks) for less than $10.
And, if you have a favorite Linux book, how about sharing it? Tell us how it helped you .
Hi @abhishek ,
I purchased a copy of your book “How Linux Works” . I am enjoying reading it. There are indeed always things to be learnt. That is one of the strong points of the open software world.
Your book is more recent than the “Doll Book” and is written for a more experience user. It is a good reference.
Here is another classic book, commonly referred to as “The Goanna Book”. It is about ‘porting’ which means putting software into Linux or Unix, starting from the source code.
