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UNIX System Administration Handbook
Evi Nemeth / Paperback / Published 2000

Slightly outdated, but still an excellent book. It also covers networking. Comes with a CD-ROM.

Essential System Administration, Third Edition
AEleen Frisch / Paperback / Published 2002

A very complete book on UNIX system administration covering all the flavors.

UNIX Shell Programmer's Interactive Workbook
Christopher Vickery / Paperback / Published 1999

The book deals with the Korn shell only. Easy and fun. Learn by doing. Comes with a CD-ROM.

UNIX User's Interactive Workbook
John McMullen / Paperback / Published 1998

Easy and fun. Learn by doing. It is a great workbook for the novice. It teaches you the basics and vi too.

UNIX System Administrator's Interactive Workbook
Joseph Kaplenk / Paperback / Published 1998

Easy and fun. Learn by doing. There are hundreds of exercises in this book designed to teach how to think like and be a system admistrator. Most exercises can be done without needing root priviledges rights. This makes the book ideal in an environment where users can only get regular system access. Covers different flavors of UNIX. Comes with a CD-ROM.

UNIX Power Tools (3rd Edition)
Jerry Peek, Shelley Powers, et al / Paperback / Published 2002

A very comprehensive book coving all aspects of UNIX, including shell scripting, and advanced techniques. It has everything a sophisticated UNIX user needs to know about UNIX.

UNIX AWK and SED Programmer's Interactive Workbook
Peter Patsis / Paperback / Published 1998

A beginner workbook which shows step-by-step how to solve practical problems with awk, sed and grep. Easy and fun. Learn by doing.

Applying RCS and SCCS
Don Bolinger, Tan Bronson / Paperback / Published 1995

The book takes you from basic source control of a single file, through working with multiple releases of software, to coordinating teams of developers involving many files and more than one target platform. It goes beyond lists of commands andoptions; getting into defining the problem you need to solve, and then shows you how to solve it. It also touches on TCCS.