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nimrody on Jan 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn Unix the Hard Way

Kernighan and Pike's "The UNIX programming environment"[1] is still my favorite despite being old and certainly not up to date.

The book teaches the UNIX way of approaching problems with a set of simple tools that complement each other.

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/

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