Re: unix newbie

[Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bodzar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Chatoor Kalki <chatoor.kalki@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello, i'm new to unix but am interested in learning and getting a decent
> command over it as quickly as possible.
> initially i will be running dragonfly bsd within virtualbox under windows 7.
>
> can i get help with references to books?
> i purchased 'the unix programming environment' but am unable to get a grasp
> over unix as effortlessly as i'd expected.
> is there some other book/s i could refer to?

Good on-line start

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/OpenSource/Conceptual/ShellScripting/Introduction/Introduction.html

>
> thank you.
>