When I last looked at it and recommended it, the short O'Reilly book "Learning the Unix Operating System, Fifth Edition: A Concise Guide for the New User" by Jerry Peek, Grace Todino, John Strang looked pretty good. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596002619/
Earlier MacOS versions of David Pogue's "Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual" had decent chapters on Unix and command-line stuff, perhaps that's all he might need? http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153281/ Also, I've seen "Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition)" by Ray and Ray suggested for Harvard intro CS courses, so perhaps it's pretty decent? http://www.amazon.com/Unix-Linux-Visual-QuickStart-Guide/dp/0321636783 Arthur On Jan 11, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Dan Parsons wrote: > I've been tasked with teaching a colleague general Unix-ish command > line skills. I'd like to find a good book to work with him on. He > uses Mac OS X, but the book doesn't necessarily have to be focused > on that OS. In fact, an OS-agnostic book would be ideal, as he does > have to ssh into Linux boxes sometimes too. > > He's already quite comfortable with the GUI approach to everything, > but working with the cli has him a bit scared. > > Any recommendations for a book along those lines? > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
