Arnold Robbins

Learning the Korn Shell

by Arnold Robbins & Bill Rosenblatt

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...

Unix in a Nutshell

by Arnold Robbins

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...

Classic Shell Scripting: Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power of Unix

by Arnold Robbins & Nelson H. F. Beebe

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...

GDB Pocket Reference

by Arnold Robbins

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...

sed & awk

by Dale Dougherty & Arnold Robbins

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...

bash Pocket Reference

by Arnold Robbins

It's simple: you need to know how to work with the bash shell if you want to get to the heart of Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix systems. Updated for the most recent version of bash, this concise little book...

Learning the vi and Vim Editors

by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah & Linda Lamb

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...

VI and VIM Editors Pocket Reference: Support for Every Text Editing Task

by Arnold Robbins

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...

vi Editor Pocket Reference

by Arnold Robbins

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...

sed and awk Pocket Reference

by Arnold Robbins

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...