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When you find a book that you are interested in, click on it to get more details.  This will take you to the Amazon web site where you will be able to check the price and availability.  If you decide that you want to order the book, click on the "add to shopping basket" button.

Once you have chosen all the books that you wish to buy, click on the shopping basket icon at the top of any of the pop-up detail screens.  Check the contents of your basket, then click on the "proceed to checkout" button.  That's all there is to it.

The books will usually be with you within a few days.  There is a small postage charge, so you may want to buy several books at once, perhaps between a few colleagues, as this will work out to be even better value.

Learning the Korn Shell by Bill Rosenblatt
click for details	Customer comment: A great introduction text for those who are begining to learn the Korn Shell. Also just as handy for those moving to the Korn Shell from other shells. Another great book from the NUTSHELL series. I just wish I had purchased the book from Amazon - I would have saved heaps!

Learning Perl by Tom Christiansen
click for details	Customer comment: Don't look at another Perl book until you have read this.. This is it. The big cahuna of introductory Perl. This book has it all - great organization, a fresh writing style, examples, and an introduction from Grand Master of Perl himself, Larry Wall. Don't even buy or look at another Perl book if you are a novice and want to begin learning Perl.

Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Christiansen

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Customer comment: Depends on your learning style, but overall a GREAT book! I have read well over 50 reviews of this book, and while many seem to think that the book is great, both as a reference book and/or a book to learn Perl, there are a large number who also think that it does not make a good reference book, or that it isn't written well at all. I think that it really depends on your learning style, and your preivous experience with programming and computers in general (especially Unix). One thing that seems to be the trend almost everwhere, which I agree with, is that this is not a very good book to learn perl with... A book better suited for this introductory task is one such as Learning Perl (the 'Llama Book') or one of the other 'tutorial' type books. However, the Camel book IS well suited as a reference book... GET IT!

Sed & Awk by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
click for details	Customer comment: A gentle guide to two daunting tools. Sed & Awk are two of the most hostile looking Unix utilities. Although I was an experienced shell scripter I was terrified of Sed & Awk until I got this book. It's an excellently written guide, starting very simply without being too basic and working up to some complex concepts.

TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt
click for details	Customer comment: This book is a very good guide for people who want to understand how TCP/IP systems work. Not only TCP/IP itself, also the main systems which make the TCP/IP and the internet work is explained such as DNS servers etc. A five star book.

Practical UNIX and Internet Security by Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford

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Synopsis: This guide explains the threats, system vulnerabilities, and countermeasures that can be adopted to protect a UNIX system, network and Internet connection. It covers both host and network security, and also contains information on Internet security, including new security tools and approaches. In addition, a range of platforms are discussed, both System V and Berkeley based, including Sun, DEC, HP, IBM, SCO, NeXT, Linux, and other UNIX systems.

PGP : Pretty Good Privacy by Simson Garfinkel

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Customer comment: Yet another O'Reilly masterpiece. Having read a poor review of this book on Amazon, I was a little reluctant to purchase. However, it appears that the addage of "one mans meat is another mans poisen" holds true here. Perhaps it is because I am new to pgp, but I really enjoyed the history portion of the book. I also found the descriptive part of this book to be exactly the information I needed to start putting pgp to good use. Without hesitation, I would recommend this book.

Learning the vi Editor by Linda Lamb, Arnold Robbins
click for details	Customer comment: Everything that you need to know about vi. I needed to learn to use vi and this book was a great help.

Learning GNU Emacs by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric Raymond
click for details	Customer comment: As good as a book can get. This is the only computer-related book I have 2 copies of, one for work and another at home. With this book Emacs goes from a powerful text editor to a powerful productivity tool. It amazes me that programmers try to get by with any other editor and this book is the place to start with Emacs.

Learning the UNIX Operating System by J. Peek

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Customer comment: A good introduction to UNIX for beginners. As a beginner to UNIX I found this a very useful introductory text. The book is short and concise but covers the basic UNIX concepts and commands. The typeface and layout are clear and easy to read and the book is a convenient size to use. I would recommend this book to anyone with no previous knowledge of UNIX who wants to learn the basics and be able to quickly start using a UNIX system. There is a reading list at the end for those readers who want to go on and learn more about the subject.

UNIX in a Nutshell by Daniel Gilly

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Customer comment: This is a great reference book: as it says in the intro, it's clearly aimed at people who already know what it says, and only need reminding of the details. If you don't already know how to use a tool or which tool to use, then learning from this book is long and difficult, but for simple queries its invaluable. The basic summary of commands doesn't really tell you anything you can't find out from the man pages, but it's much quicker to find things out from a book rather than on screen. Complex tools (the shells, awk, troff etc) have their own sections so things that may be presented tersely in the on-line documentation are much clearer. My only complaint is that options may be documented that aren't present on your Unix, and these aren't clearly indicated as not being universal, so check the man pages if in doubt.

Essential System Administration by Aeleen Frisch
click for details	Customer comment: Perfect for those who are caught between userdom and gurudom I'm not a smart man. But I know what Unix is. Or I thought I did. This book helped me learn the way Unix THINKS. It's a little old, but it's a great resource for people who know how to think, but don't know how to think like a sysadmin yet. Another O'Reilly triumph.

Practical C Programming by Steve Oualline

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Customer comment: If you're buying one C book, make it this one! I've read many C programming books in my time, all of which tend to take the reader in circles, only serving to confuse her, rather than educate her. Steve Oualline's "Practical C Programming", however, is a different story: written with the dry, often tongue-in-cheek humour that has come to characterise O'Reilly books, the reader is taken from basics, through commenting, all the way to the more complex C topics. If you plan to buy only C book, make it this one.

Practical C++ Programming by Steve Oualline
click for details	Customer comment: This is an excellent first book for someone starting out in C++. The basics are covered to give you a good grasp of the fundamentals. It provides very good examples and the author will not bog you down with unnecessary Mumbo-Jumbo.

Exploring Expect by Don Libes
click for details	Synopsis: Written by the author of Expect, this book explains how this part of UNIX toolbox can be used to automate TelNet, FTP, PASSWD, RLOGIN and other interactive applications. Based on TCL (tool control language), Expect lets the user automate interactive applications that have previously been extremely difficult to handle with any scripting language.

Sendmail by Bryan Costales, Eric Allman
click for details	Customer comment: Sendmail.cf may be the most feared configuration file on the face of this earth -- this book makes it all make sense. If you've ever "really" worked with sendmail, your fingers have fumbled through this one.

DNS and Bind by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu
click for details	Customer comment: I wept, I laughed, I made money by reading this book! Great book! I you have a job that entails the correct and proper operation of a DNS, this book is the only book you need. Even if you are foolish enough to run DNS on NT, this book is a must have. It is so good that no one has even attempted to write a competing book.