Arnold Robbins: 12 books
Linux in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Everything you need to know about Linux is in this book. Written by Stephen Figgins, Ellen Siever, Robert Love, and Arnold Robbins -- people with years of active participation in the Linux community -- Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition, thoroughly covers programming tools, system and network administration...
sed and awk Pocket Reference
Text Processing with Regular Expressions
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. sed, awk, and regular expressions allow programmers and system administrators to automate editing tasks that need to be performed on one or more files, to simplify the task of performing the same edits on multiple...
vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference
Support for every text editing task
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Many Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X geeks enjoy using the powerful, platform-agnostic text editors vi and Vim, but there are far too many commands for anyone to remember. Author Arnold Robbins has chosen the most valuable commands for vi, Vim, and vi's main clones—vile, elvis, and nvi—and packed them...
Effective awk Programming
Universal Text Processing and Pattern Matching
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
When processing text files, the awk language is ideal for handling data extraction, reporting, and data-reformatting jobs. This practical guide serves as both a reference and tutorial for POSIX-standard awk and for the GNU implementation, called gawk. This book is useful for novices and awk experts...
Learning the vi and Vim Editors
Text Processing at Maximum Speed and Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
There's nothing that hard-core Unix and Linux users are more fanatical about than their text editor. Editors are the subject of adoration and worship, or of scorn and ridicule, depending upon whether the topic of discussion is your editor or someone else's.
vi has been the standard editor for...
Classic Shell Scripting
Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power of Unix
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Shell scripting skills never go out of style. It's the shell that unlocks the real potential of Unix. Shell scripting is essential for Unix users and system administrators-a way to quickly harness and customize the full power of any Unix system. With shell scripts, you can combine the fundamental...
GDB Pocket Reference
Debugging Quickly & Painlessly with GDB
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2005
Many Linux and Unix developers are familiar with the GNU debugger (GBD), the invaluable open source tool for testing, fixing, and retesting software. And since GDB can be ported to Windows, Microsoft developers and others who use this platform can also take advantage of this amazing free software...
by Arnold Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 1999
For many users, working in the UNIX environment means using vi, a full-screen text editor available on most UNIX systems. Even those who know vi often make use of only a small number of its features.The vi Editor Pocket Reference is a companion volume to O'Reilly's updated sixth edition of Learning...
Bash Pocket Reference
Help for Power Users and Sys Admins
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
It’s simple: if you want to interact deeply with Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix-like systems, you need to know how to work with the Bash shell. This concise little book puts all of the essential information about Bash right at your fingertips.
You’ll quickly find answers to the annoying...
Unix in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference - Covers GNU/Linux, Mac OS X,and Solaris
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
As an open operating system, Unix can be improved on by anyone and everyone: individuals, companies, universities, and more. As a result, the very nature of Unix has been altered over the years by numerous extensions formulated in an assortment of versions. Today, Unix encompasses everything from...
sed & awk
UNIX Power Tools
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
sed & awk describes two text processing programs that are mainstays of the UNIX programmer's toolbox.
sed is a "stream editor" for editing streams of text that might be too large to edit as a single file, or that might be generated on the fly as part of a larger data processing...
Learning the Korn Shell
Unix Programming
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Korn shell is an interactive command and scripting language for accessing Unix® and other computer systems. As a complete and high-level programming language in itself, it's been a favorite since it was developed in the mid 1980s by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Knowing how to...