Teach Yourself Unix in a Week

This book teaches Unix fundamentals: commands, best practices, and a bit of history. If you're familiar with Unix, you can read the chapters in whichever order you prefer; otherwise, read the chapters in sequential order as the commands, lessons, and techniques build upon one another.To Taylor's credit, he teaches Unix while lowering its 'intimidation quotient'.I highly recommend this book (especially for the price -- learn Unix on the cheap).

This book is written in simple language and covers most of basic commands you need to know.

This book is great! I especialy enjoyed the section on vi. An extreemly helpful book, even though I've been using unix for almost 10 years, I learned some new tricks. I recommend it to anyone who needs to learn unix. My customers who need telnet access or wnat to have their own server for example. The only reason it didn't get 5 stars is that the author sometimes talks down to the reader. And his humor is too dry for my taste.

This book got me up and running with Unix in (unfortunately for what the title claimed) about 2 weeks (I'm a slow reader). It served as a springboard for me with the Unix OS. Now, I've moved on to more complex subjects in the Unix world. Along with one of the now-famous Nutshell books, this book got me through the initial shock of the infamous Unix shell prompt and made me realize that it truly is a great operating system. Dave Taylor is very good at explaining the concepts. Sometimes, there isn't enough, but the book would be twice as thick, twice as expensive, and twice as confusing had he included everything. I highly recommend this book!