Title: Not the best introductory book
Product review: This book was a required text for the Unix course I am enrolled in and I found it to be a very difficult book to learn Unix. The author attempts to explain shell scripting, for example, by providing the script and then explaining what the script does in paragraph form. This made the chapters on bourne, c and korn shell very difficult to learn from. Try Ellie Quigley's book "Unix Shells by Example" for learning shell scripting. Quigley provides plenty of examples to learn from and provides step by step explanations on shell scripting.Sobell does a good job Chapter 7, networking. Most of this chapter is explaining concepts and not teaching and explaining Unix commands.I would not recommend this book if you are learning Unix. I think there are books out there do that do a better job to those new to Unix.Given a choice, I preferred the following:"Learning the Unix OS" by Oreilly. "Unix Shells by Example" by Quigley, which I highly recommend
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