Life with UNIX

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1. 1vuio0pswjnm7Aug 2024
   For example, expect(1) is described in the 1989 Don Libes book "Life with UNIX". Libes is the author of Expect. A title such as "Life with Linux" would probably have made little sense at the time.
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2. Lex-2008Sep 2019
   nice stuff! Some of these acronyms are new for me (like rc), others I knew from before (like cat). Reading Life_with_Unix now.
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3. technofiendJul 2017
   Awk is pretty awesome - certainly one of my first loves. As I often do when it comes up in an HN thread if anyone has the artwork or is willing to scan said artwork of the infamous Bell Labs T-shirt I would be eternally grateful. It emphasizes the one weak point of AWK which is debugging. The shirt shows a gangly bird parachuting out of an airplane and reads "Awk bailing out near line 1"

   The original as referenced here - ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Documentation/Books/Life_with_Unix.pdf - is no longer available as "The Independent UNIX Bookstore" no longer exists.

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4. emmelaichJun 2016
   Predating those two are:

   UNIX as literature http://theody.net/elements.html

   Life with UNIX by Don Libes http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Books/Life_with... (from the author's website)

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