[wplug] books

Brian Medley bpm-list-wplug at 4321.tv
Fri Sep 26 15:06:39 EDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:49:21PM -0400, Joe Topjian wrote:

> I need some new books.. unix / linux related, of course.
> Problem is, I'm rather tired of picking up something and it turning out 
> to be mind-numbingly boring or useless. For example, O'Reillys Unix 
> Backup and Recovery. ugh.
> 
> So, can anyone give some suggestions on some good books to read? 
> Something I can pick up and actually learn something from it. Suggest 
> anything.. from programming to scripting to security to sysadmin to 
> internals to networking etc.

The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike
Learning Perl / Programming Perl
Basically any book by Richard Stevens: http://www.kohala.com/start/#books
If your hardcore: The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth

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