GNU style actually is more readable

@RussSharek that's the thing about it, it may at first seem like it's "above your head" but after a while it makes more sense.

also, you can basically ignore the code examples and just read the introductions to each section and get a lot of information about a lot of the coreutils.

also, IMO, it is a masterful piece of technical writing and is actually kind of entertaining to read

@RussSharek it has a dillbert on the cover too

@RussSharek have you read "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment"?

@RussSharek it's not really that advanced (except all the examples are in C, but more to come on that...)

it is a really good reference book by w. richard stevens. he wrote some other books abour UNIX but he died real young a long time ago in the 90s

'APUE' explains pretty much all about how all the shell commands work. you don't have to know C (which I barely know), it really just tells you about all the UNIX system calls