About the Author

Dave Taylor is a popular writer, teacher, and speaker focused on business communications and technology issues. The author of almost 20 books, including Growing Your Business with Google, Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, and Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours, he is also a visionary in the business blogging and communications space. His primary weblogs are The Intuitive View (http://www.intuitive.com/)and Ask Dave Taylor (http://www.askdavetaylor.com). Dave has an MS Education and MBA and has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and the Macintosh since his first dirty beige 512K Mac in 1985. He has contributed software to the 4.4 release of Berkeley Unix (BSD)and his programs are found in all versions of Linux and other popular Unix variants.

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