I learned Unix by reading books, magazines and blogs. It was long time ago. One resource I still can remember and like is “Unix Programming Environment” by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. I read its Japanese translation from ASCII 1.However this book was aged even at that time and the original English version from Prentice-Hall seems discontinued. It is not something I could recommend to others.
MIT CSAIL’s the Missing Semester of Your CS Education looks good. I only have skimmed through though. It is good to see that the page mentions man;
A more detailed approach is to use the man command. Short for manual, man provides a manual page (called manpage) for a command you specify.
But new developers also should know the difference between kill(1) and kill(2). How do people learn that nowadays?
- No. Not American Standard Code for Information Interchange. There is a Japanese company called ASCII. The publishing label is now called ASCII Dwango which sells technical books such as the Rust Programming Language’s Japanese translation. ↩︎