- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (1 Nov 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0139376992
- ISBN-13: 978-0139376993
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 18 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 394,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- See Complete Table of Contents
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £4.20
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £4.20, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Product details |
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Product Description
In their preface, the authors explain, "This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C. It contains tutorial introduction to get new users started as soon as possible, separate chapters on each major feature, and a reference manual. Most of the treatment is based on reading, writing, and revising examples, rather than on mere statement of rules. For the most part, the examples are complete, real programs, rather than isolated garments. All examples have been tested directly from the text, which is in machine-readable form. Besides showing how to make effective use of the language, we have also tried where possible to illustrate useful algorithms and principles of good style and sound design....
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Merely half an inch thick, and employing the same cover design - or lack of it - as the C Programming Language, this is probably the least pretentious looking book on my bookshelf. However, the look is misleading - there are very few books, regardless of length, that aim to teach you as much as this one, and even fewer than succeed in it.
Unix programming environment might sound a rather ambitious title nowadays, when a tutorial on each specialized tool can easily exceed 400 pages. However, this one actually delivers everything that it promises. Kernighan and Pike start with the basic description of Unix file system and the basic set of commands, continue with the command shell, redirection and piping. Next come the filters: regular expressions, grep, sort, sed and awk. At that point, the reader is ready for the full-fledged treatment of the command shell programming. Next come standard I/O and Unix system calls, followed by the program development tools: make, lex and yacc. The course is concluded with a chapter on document formatting with troff.
The chapters on I/O and system calls imply familiarity with the C programming language. The already mentioned tutorial on C by Kernighan and Ritchie, written in much the same style and spirit, can serve as the introduction to it. Also, while the book keeps up with its age remarkably well, there are some points where the described Unix system differs from the modern POSIX systems (most user commands are however backward compatible and still accept the old syntax). The required changes are really minor, but can nevertheles annoy an innocent reader.
The book belongs to nowadays rare breed of books on computers written for engineers and CS students rather than for dummies and idiots. Although primarily written for individual study, it can be used for one-semester course on Unix (like in C Programming Language, the exercises are lacking solutions, though). I would love to see it made-up with POSIX syntax and generally reflecting the changes made to Unix during the past 15 years.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book will give you the insight you need to exploit the essential simplicity and power of Unix-like environments. It may not cover the latest, but it will give you the core you need to build on and develop. Highly recommended.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The key material covered in this book is : - the Unix file system, (Bourne) shell commands & script programming, text processing (using grep, awk and sed), file I/O, system calls and document processing (using troff/nroff, etc).
The book is written in a traditional, no-frills format but is easy to follow, with clear code examples.
Systems programming is not covered any great depth (To fill this gap I would recommend the advanced Unix programming books by Rochkind and Stevens).
For a book published 15 years ago, it inevitably misses newer additions (no coverage of C-shell, K-shell, vi, Perl, etc.). Despite this it is still the classic introduction to Unix programming.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
It's a book that I keep going back to
I have referred to this book now for many years. It is straightforward to follow and has some very useful tips. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2002
Understand the logic of UNIX.
Ive learned UNIX on my home p.c with LINUX, Coming from WinNT envrioment i didnt know a thing About the UNIX operating system, this book helped Me understand the simplicity and... Read more
Published on 2 Sep 1999
This is the first book I recommend to anyone who uses UNIX
A fantastic book written in the very readable Kerninghan style. Succinct, thoughtful. After reading this book you'll not only understand how unix works, but why it works the... Read more
Published on 5 Mar 1999
My favorite book on the Unix environment
This is my favorite book on the Unix environment.
It starts at a very basic level, and gets quite involved by the end (for example, it includes a desktop calculator implemented... Read more
Published on 24 Aug 1998
A classic exposition of Unix philosophy and practice.
This is one of the best Unix books ever. It conveys not just the "how-to" details of the
Unix environment, but its "why-to"; its philosophy
and... Read more
Unix environment, but its "why-to"; its philosophy
and... Read more
Published on 23 July 1997
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
