book request, want advice

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1900 at batman.moravian.EDU> dodgeT at batman.moravian.EDU (Asmodeus) writes:
-	I would like the net's advice on (a) good book(s) concerning 
-the non-trivial aspects of unix.  I am already familiar w/many of the
-commands...that is not a problem...what i want is a book that 
-details and explains many of the unix features that separate it from
-the smaller operating systems.  Ex.->  devices, virtual memory, perl,
-other various shells...basically a good book that doesn't spend too much
-time explaining every line-editor and vi to me...tell me something 
-interesting...

Libes & Ressler, "Life With UNIX", would probably tell you much of
what you want to know, but only at a survey level.  For details you
have to dig into lots of places.