The UNIX programming environment

Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

Prentice-Hall, 1984 - Computers - 357 pages

In their Preface, the authors explain, "This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C. It contains a tutorial introduction to get new users started as soon as possible, separate chapters on each major feature, and a reference manual. Most of the treatment is based on reading, writing, and revising examples, rather than on mere statements of rules. For the most part, the examples are complete, real programs, rather than isolated fragments. All examples have been tested directly from the text, which is in machine-readable form. Besides showing how to make effective use of the language, we have also tried where possible to illustrate useful algorithms and principles of good style and sound design... Book jacket.

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Review: The Unix Programming Environment

User Review  - Kyle The Hacker - Goodreads

Despite its age, this book remains remarkably relevant to modern Unix systems. It explains many of the tools available on Unix systems. I've seen many updates on twitter expressing surprise at the ...

Review: The Unix Programming Environment

User Review  - Ovidiu Neatu - Goodreads

Kind of obsolate, as so many people said already. I began reading the book expecting to understand more of the unix system call using the C programming language, but.. I din't find alot of that. In ...

Contents

• The File System: 41
• Using the Shell: 71
• Filters: 101

About the author

Brian Kernighan received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1969. He was in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Laboratories from 1969 to 2000 and now teaches in the Computer Science department at Princeton. He is the co-author of several computer science books, including THE C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE and THE UNIX PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT.

Pike is a researcher having worked on a number of graphics, operating systems, programming languages including BLIT, Plan 9, Inferno, and Limbo.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The UNIX programming environment; Prentice-Hall software series
• Authors: Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1984
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 15, 2007
• ISBN: 013937681X, 9780139376818
• Length: 357 pages
• Subjects: Computer programming; Computer science; Computers / Operating Systems / General; Computers / Operating Systems / UNIX; Computers / Programming / General; Electronic digital computers; UNIX (Computer file); UNIX (Computer operating system)