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Questions regarding learning materials (books, tutorials, HOWTOs, etc) are off-topic, unless it is in regards to finding official (primary) documentation (e.g. POSIX specifications). If your question is about the former, reconsider whether it is on-topic!

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I have a book in fb2 format. I want to print the table of contents, containing names and numbers of "parts", "chapters", "episodes" and so on. Is there a way I can do ...
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I just finished an Operating Systems course at my University, and I want to start playing with systems level programs with Rust. One of things I'm looking for is how to intercept a file descriptor of ...
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I'm going through the 'Unix Programming Environment' classic by Kernighan and Pike. I discovered there was a very interesting command written by Kernighan and someone else called learn for computer ...
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I want to know the mechanism of Linux kernel. But I was confused by such a huge number of concepts, structs and functions after the reading of Understanding the Linux kernel. This book details too ...
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I was wondering if the Unix Power Tools book, Third edition, is still relevant today? I want to order it but I am afraid it contains only outdated material. If so, is there a recent similar book?
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I am looking for a good book or online article on analysis and tuning Linux system performance. So far I've found openSUSE 12.2 System Analysis and Tuning Guide which looks promising. Any other ...
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I would really like to obtain a book on Plan 9's design and ethos. Do such things exist? Anybody have a recommendation? (Asking here on the basis that Plan 9 was once meant to be Unix's successor, ...
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I'm new to Unix/Linux platforms so I was hunting for good books on *nix... I soon realized there is not one book or resource. But to gain confidence on the command line and scripting (the real *nix ...
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