In the tradition of 12-step programs that help people overcome their addictions by sharing stories, The UNIX-Haters Handbook is the self-help guide for people affected by the world’s most esoteric and most widely used operating system.

Turn here for answers to all-important questions, such as…

Why does the online documentation lie to us? Why does the operating system overwrite valuable files with garbage? Why does the user’s guide bear no relationship to reality? Why do the commands have cryptic names that have no bearing on their function? What is a grep? What is vi? Do troffs live under bridges, or are they inverted trons? WHERE ARE THEY SENDING ALL THE UPPERCASE LETTERS?

One of the funniest books I’ve ever read
“I can’t believe this book is out of print. Get a copy before it vanishes forever.

If you’ve ever suffered through cryptic Unix commands, man pages, or error messages, only to be told by some self-righteous Unix apologist that these problems are *your fault* and that Unix is *perfect and beyond criticism*, you’ll love this book.

If you think that Unix is perfect and beyond criticism, you’ll hate the book.

Don’t get me wrong–I don’t hate Unix, and probably the authors don’t either. The real, and well-deserved, target of the satire are the self-righteous apologists.”

A hilarious indictment of the geek’s sacred cow
“Unix, and to some extent, its offspring Linux have always been something I’ve hated, and it was very refreshing to come across a book that summed up all my frustrations perfectly. In the Unix Haters Handbook, Daniel Weise and Simson Garfinkel take aim at your average geek’s most sacred cows, from Unix to Usenet to the C programming language, and the result is nothing short of hilarious.

The first portion of the book is dedicated to exposing the basic flaws of the Unix operating system, decrying the “Worse is Better” philosophy that it is built on. The crude, antidiluvian console interface, the utter lack of documentation, the hopeless X-Windowing system, nothing is spared from the book’s wrath. The latter is devoted to exploring the flawed peripherals of Unix, from sendmail, to the troublesome system administration and file systems. Lastly, the C programming language is also thoroughly lambasted, undoubtedly earning the ire of geeks everywhere.”

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