Does this book have any peers/competitors? (Score 2)

I haven't seen any books similar to this. I only see UNIX/Linux "user" books (installation process, basic utilities, etc) and advanced programming tomes (A-W's excellent "Programming in the UNIX Environment").

I think that this may be the only good "beginning" UNIX programming book out there... if there are others, please tell me what they are!

BTW, I agree with the "this is not a Linux book" comments -- it really is a general UNIX book relabeled to sell better. Which is good, since I'm rather partial to FreeBSD myself :}