[wplug] UNIX command line tutorial

[Brian Roberts]

I highly recommend  "Think Unix".    I read it years ago after trying a ton
of other tutorials and it made everything just click for me.  It teaches CLI
more like a spoken language than a series of commands.

http://books.google.com/books?id=_ZF2CJ0XfGoC&dq=think+unix&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=grMPTNj1CoP78Aaf8YyXCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false



On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Max Putas <maxblaze at gmail.com> wrote:

> This article is also very good:
>
> http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/text_utils.html
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Max Putas <maxblaze at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > What you want is the book, "Unix Text Processing". It's out of print,
> > but luckily it's available under the creative commons license:
> >
> > http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul Cantalupo <pcantalupo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to find an article that I read a long time ago about the
> power of
> >> UNIX commands such as 'sort', 'uniq', 'tr', etc... It also described how
> you
> >> can pipe them together on the command line. I think it was written by
> one of
> >> the "founders" or developers of the early UNIX system. If you can point
> me
> >> to the right web link, it would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> Paul Cantalupo
> >> Research Specialist/Systems Programmer
> >> 559 Crawford Hall
> >> Department of Biological Sciences
> >> University of Pittsburgh
> >> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> >> Work: 412-624-4687
> >> Fax: 412-624-4759
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Max Putas
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Max Putas
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