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title: "BSD Hacks"
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# BSD Hacks

**Brand:** dru lavigne
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- **What is this?** BSD Hacks by dru lavigne
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book for BSD users
*by J***N on April 18, 2025*

Dru knows her stuff and clearly conveys the material.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun, light, information-packed guide for the BSDs
*by L***R on June 24, 2015*

Dru Lavigne is the Brian Kernighan of the BSD world. All things she has written are eminently readable, and this small book is no exception. Most of the tips are for FreeBSD and assume you're using csh/tcsh (hopefully tcsh!!), but most of the tips can be applied to other BSDs with relative ease. The BSDs have diverged from each other considerably, but the base system of each has most of the tools needed to do the things listed in this book. Some are fairly obvious, some are not, but all are written in Dru Lavigne's breezy and fun style which makes reading through this book such a joy. Highly recommended, especially if you're a Linux person thinking about dipping your toes into the BSD world (come on over, we have cake on the dark side!) and are slightly confounded at the minor but significant differences in the feel of the BSDs versus X or Y or Z Linux.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well worth the read, but slightly outdated...
*by J***I on November 22, 2008*

Delving into BSD, I could not find the amount of print material I was hoping for... but instead found online (internet and CDROM) materiel of man pages, command listings, etc... I don't mind the "RTFM" response, but I cannot stand when folks push man (1) pages as the center of teaching BSD. I hate to push against the un*x mentality, but I work better with printed books... and Dru's book of BSD Hacks helped fill a big gap of knowledge I had.I'm amending this review just based on time; some of the hacks within don't work anymore (CVSup, anyone?) based on deprecated programs/commands. Not the fault of the writer... partially the fault of the publisher, since there probably won't be an update.I'd seen it in a local book store, but didn't want to pay full price. Amazon's listing of a used copy was snatched up by me very quickly, and has a prized place in my BSD network laboratory...Until (if ever) an O'reilly "BSD in a Nutshell" book comes out, this one will fill in the gaps of "hidden" and "prized" knowledge. Get a copy soon...

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