How long does it take to read The Art of UNIX Programming?
The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond takes about 9 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 38 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 525 pages, about 144,375 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Art of Unix Programming attempts to capture the engineering wisdom and philosophy of the Unix community as it's applied today — not merely as it has been written down in the past, but as a living "special transmission, outside the scriptures" passed from guru to guru. Accordingly, the book doesn't focus so much on "what" as on "why", showing the connection between Unix philosophy and practice through case studies in widely available open-source software. Authors Site
Subjects: Operating systems (Computers), UNIX (computer operating system), UNIX Shells, Systèmes d'exploitation (Ordinateurs)
