Acknowledgments

However you slice it, you can’t write a book locked in a cave (even if there’s a high-speed Internet connection and fancy computer therein), and this book has evolved over many, many years, starting its life as an Interactive Unix tutorial I was writing for Sun Microsystems. In the interim, a number of people have added their spices to the stew, most notably my co-author for the first and second editions of Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours , James C. Armstrong, Jr.

In this new fifth edition, I’ve been delighted by the cooperative and talented team at Sams Publishing, again, and would like to specifically thank Mark Taber and Tonya Simpson, and my tech editors Brian Tiemann and Siddhartha Singh for all their ideas and commentary ...

Get Unix in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself: Covers OS X, Linux, and Solaris, Fifth Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.