[lug] Review copies of Mark Sobell's "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming"

[Bruce Long]

I'd enjoy reviewing it. I don't see an email for her though.

Bruce


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Chuck Hipschman <ckhipschman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,   I'm forwarding this email from Heather Fox, publicist for
> Pearson.  She's looking for 4-5 reviewers of Mark's new book, Just
> contact her and she'll send you a code to get a printed or electronic
> copy.  Of course, you are expected to supply a review, but I found
> this book easy to read and very useful. So get it, read it, and share
> your opinion of it.  I've personally given as gifts 3 copies to people
> I knew who wanted to get beyond the gui/beginner stage.
>
> Chuck Hipschman, Boulder Linux Users Group
>
>
> =============================================================================
>
>
> We are eager to recruit reviewers for the Amazon page of this new 3rd
> Ed. because – unlike in the past –reviews for prior editions no longer
> carry over; thus, starting from scratch.
>
> If you know of any potential reviewer candidates (including yourself),
> please introduce me and I’ll ship a review copy directly to the
> individual. As well, eBook bundles (pdf/mobi/ePub) are an option- this
> just requires the reader to first create a user account on our
> publisher site (informit.com/join), then I send a download code.
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Commands-Editors-Programming-Edition/dp/013308504X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350338012&sr=8-1&keywords=sobell+linux+commands
> As background, this new edition has brand new chapters on Python
> (Chp#12), the MySQL database management system (Chp#13), a new chapter
> on the OpenSSH secure communication utilities (Chp#17), rewritten
> chapters on bash to include new information, and many new command-line
> utilities.
> I’ve copied the contents below.
> Thanks, Heather Fox, Senior Publicist & User Group Liaison
> TITLE: 3rd Ed., "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and
> Shell Programming" by Mark Sobell, published by Pearson/Prentice Hall
> Professional; www.informit.com/title/013308504X
> -- Chapter 1: Welcome to Linux and Mac OS X (1) (Part I): The Linux
> and Mac OS X Operating Systems (21)
> -- Chapter 2: Getting Started (23)
> -- Chapter 3: The Utilities (49)
> -- Chapter 4: The Filesystem (81)
> -- Chapter 5: The Shell (125)
> (Part II): The Editors (157)
> -- Chapter 6: The vim Editor (159)
> -- Chapter 7: The emacs Editor (213)
> (Part III): The Shells (273)
> -- Chapter 8: The Bourne Again Shell (bash) (275)
> -- Chapter 9: The TC Shell (tcsh) (369)
> (Part IV): Programming Tools (415)
> -- Chapter 10: Programming the Bourne Again Shell (bash) (417)
> -- Chapter 11: The Perl Scripting Language (517)
> -- Chapter 12: The Python Programming Language (563)
> -- Chapter 13: The MySQL Database Management System (595)
> -- Chapter 14: The AWK Pattern Processing Language (619)
> -- Chapter 15: The sed Editor (653)
> (Part V): Secure Network Utilities (671)
> -- Chapter 16: The rsync Secure Copy Utility (673)
> -- Chapter 17: The OpenSSH Secure Communication Utilities (687) (Part
> VI): Command Reference (711) (Part VII): Appendixes (1009)
> -- Appendix A: Regular Expressions (1011)
> -- Appendix B: Help (1021)
> -- Appendix C: Keeping the System Up-to-Date (1027)
> -- Appendix D: Mac OS X Notes (1041)
> -- Glossary (1053)
> -- File Tree Index (1105)
> -- Utility Index (1107)
> -- Main Index (1111)
> *****************
> Heather Fox
> Senior Publicist
> Pearson North America – Professional and Personal Technology
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