[Gllug] Are old Unix books any good?

[Dermot Moynihan]

At 09:22 03/03/03, you wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:47:59AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> > For sysadmin:
> >
> > "Unix power tools" -- O'Reilly. Make sure you get the first edition.
> >                                 They ruined it for the second.
>
>There is now a 3rd edition of this out, its apparently got Linux specific tips
>in it now, I havn't seen or read it though. Another O'Reilly I can really
>reccomend is "Essential System Administration" I have an old edition which is
>good, apparently this has also been brought up to date too. My favourite book
>for learning shell programming dates from about 1990 "Unix shell programming,
>Revised edition" by Kochan and Wood, some of the older shell books are very
>handy as it does make writing portable shell scripts that much easier.
>
>Adam

Thanks everybody for your input. Big help.

rgds
Dermot