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Linux for Programmers and Users
By Graham Glass, King Ables
Publisher	: Prentice Hall
Pub Date	: February 15, 2006
Print ISBN-10	: 0-13-185748-7
Print ISBN-13	: 978-0-13-185748-3
eText ISBN-10	: 0-13-186102-6
eText ISBN-13	: 978-0-13-186102-2
Pages	: 700

Copyright
Trademark Information		ii
Preface		xxv
	About the Authors		xxv
	About the Book		xxvi
	Organization of the Book		xxvii
	Layout of the Chapters		xxvii
	A Guide for Teachers		xxviii
	Nomenclature		xxix
	References to Other Books		xxix
	Source Code Availability Online		xxx
	Acknowledgments		xxx
Chapter 1. What Is Linux?		1
	Motivation		1
	Prerequisites		1
	Objectives		1
	Presentation		1
	Section 1.1. Computer Systems		2
	Section 1.2. Hardware		3
	Section 1.3. Operating System		4
	Section 1.4. Software		5
	Section 1.5. Sharing Resources		5
	Section 1.6. Communication		6
	Section 1.7. Utilities		7
	Section 1.8. Programmer Support		7
	Section 1.9. Standards		8
	Section 1.10. Linux Lineage		8
	Section 1.11. Linux Packaging		11
	Section 1.12. The Linux and UNIX Philosophy		12
	Section 1.13. Linux Features		13
	Section 1.14. The Rest of This Book		14
	Chapter Review		15
Chapter 2. Installing Your Linux System		17
	Motivation		17
	Prerequisites		17
	Objectives		17
	Presentation		17
	Section 2.1. Introduction		18
	Section 2.2. Make Sure Your Hardware Will Support Linux		18
	Section 2.3. Choose Your Linux Distribution		20
	Section 2.4. Consider Optional Software Packages		23
	Section 2.5. Design Your System		28
	Section 2.6. Get Linux		33
	Section 2.7. Install Linux		35
	Chapter Review		39
Chapter 3. GNU Utilities for Nonprogrammers		41
	Motivation		41
	Prerequisites		41
	Objectives		41
	Presentation		41
	Utilities		42
	Shell command		42
	Section 3.1. Obtaining an Account		42
	Section 3.2. Logging In		42
	Section 3.3. Shells		43
	Section 3.4. Running a GNU Utility		44
	Section 3.5. Input, Output, and Error Channels		45
	Section 3.6. Obtaining Online Help: man		45
	Section 3.7. Special Characters		47
	Section 3.8. Setting Your Password: passwd		49
	Section 3.9. Logging Out		50
	Section 3.10. Poetry in Motion: Exploring the File System		50
	Section 3.11. Printing Your Shell's Current Working Directory: pwd		52
	Section 3.12. Absolute and Relative Pathnames		52
	Section 3.13. Creating a File		54
	Section 3.14. Listing the Contents of a Directory: ls		55
	Section 3.15. Listing the Contents of a File: cat/more/head/tail		56
	Section 3.16. Renaming a File: mv		58
	Section 3.17. Creating a Directory: mkdir		58
	Section 3.18. Moving to a Directory: cd		59
	Section 3.19. Copying a File: cp		60
	Section 3.20. Editing a File: vim		61
	Section 3.21. Deleting a Directory: rmdir		62
	Section 3.22. Deleting a File: rm		62
	Section 3.23. Printing a File: lp/lpstat/cancel		64
	Section 3.24. Printing a File: lpr/lpq/lprm		65
	Section 3.25. Counting Words in a File: wc		67
	Section 3.26. File Attributes		68
	Section 3.27. Groups		72
	Section 3.28. Listing Your Groups: groups		73
	Section 3.29. Changing a File's Group: chgrp		73
	Section 3.30. Changing a File's Permissions: chmod		74
	Section 3.31. Changing a File's Owner: chown		76
	Section 3.32. Changing Groups: newgrp		76
	Section 3.33. Poetry in Motion: Epilogue		77
	Section 3.34. Determining Your Terminal's Type: tset		77
	Section 3.35. Changing a Terminal's Characteristics: stty		80
	Section 3.36. Editing a File: vim		82
	Section 3.37. Editing a File: emacs		93
	Section 3.38. Electronic Mail: mail		99
	Chapter Review		103
Chapter 4. GNU Utilities for Power Users		107
	Motivation		107
	Prerequisites		107
	Objectives		107
	Presentation		107
	Utilities		107
	Section 4.1. Introduction		108
	Section 4.2. Filtering Files: grep, egrep, fgrep, and uniq		109
	Section 4.3. Sorting Files: sort		113
	Section 4.4. Comparing Files: cmp and diff		116
	Section 4.5. Finding Files: find		119
	Section 4.6. Archiving Files: cpio, tar, and dump/restore		121
	Section 4.7. Scheduling Commands: crontab and at		128
	Section 4.8. Programmable Text Processing: gawk		132
	Section 4.9. Hard and Soft Links: ln		137
	Section 4.10. Identifying Shells: whoami		139
	Section 4.11. Substituting a User: su		139
	Section 4.12. Transforming Files		140
	Section 4.13. Looking at Raw File Contents: od		148
	Section 4.14. Mounting File Systems: mount and umount		149
	Section 4.15. Identifying Terminals: tty		150
	Section 4.16. Timing Execution: time		151
	Section 4.17. Rolling Your Own Programs: Perl		152
	Chapter Review		164
Chapter 5. The Linux Shells		167
	Motivation		167
	Prerequisites		167
	Objectives		167
	Presentation		168
	Utilities		168
	Shell Commands		168
	Section 5.1. Introduction		168
	Section 5.2. Selecting a Shell		169
	Section 5.3. Shell Operations		170
	Section 5.4. Executable Files Versus Built-in Commands		170
	Section 5.5. Metacharacters		171
	Section 5.6. Redirection		172
	Section 5.7. Filename Substitution (Wildcards)		174
	Section 5.8. Command Substitution		178
	Section 5.9. Sequences		178
	Section 5.10. Grouping Commands		179
	Section 5.11. Background Processing		180
	Section 5.12. Redirecting Background Processes		181
	Section 5.13. Shell Programs (Scripts)		182
	Section 5.14. Subshells or Child Shells		183
	Section 5.15. Variables		184
	Section 5.16. Quoting		187
	Section 5.17. Here Documents		187
	Section 5.18. Job Control		188
	Section 5.19. Finding a Command: $PATH		194
	Section 5.20. Superseding Standard Utilities		195
	Section 5.21. Termination and Exit Codes		196
	Section 5.22. Common Core Built-Ins		197
	Chapter Review		200
Chapter 6. The Bourne Again Shell		203
	Motivation		203
	Prerequisites		203
	Objectives		203
	Presentation		203
	Shell Commands		204
	Section 6.1. Introduction		204
	Section 6.2. Startup		204
	Section 6.3. Variables		205
	Section 6.4. Command Shortcuts		217
	Section 6.5. Tilde Substitution		220
	Section 6.6. Redirection		221
	Section 6.7. Command Substitution		222
	Section 6.8. Arithmetic		222
	Section 6.9. Conditional Expressions		223
	Section 6.10. Control Structures		226
	Section 6.11. Functions		232
	Section 6.12. Menus: select		236
	Section 6.13. Directory Access and the Directory Stack		237
	Section 6.14. Job Control		239
	Section 6.15. Command-Line Options		242
	Chapter Review		242
Chapter 7. The Korn Shell		245
	Motivation		245
	Prerequisites		245
	Objectives		245
	Presentation		245
	Shell Commands		245
	Section 7.1. Introduction		246
	Section 7.2. Startup		246
	Section 7.3. Variables		248
	Section 7.4. Aliases		255
	Section 7.5. History		259
	Section 7.6. Editing Commands		262
	Section 7.7. Arithmetic		265
	Section 7.8. Tilde Substitution		267
	Section 7.9. Menus: select		267
	Section 7.10. Functions		269
	Section 7.11. Job Control		273
	Section 7.12. Enhancements		276
	Section 7.13. Sample Project: junk		290
	Section 7.14. Command-Line Options		293
	Chapter Review		293
Chapter 8. The C Shell		295
	Motivation		295
	Prerequisites		295
	Objectives		295
	Presentation		295
	Shell Commands		296
	Section 8.1. Introduction		296
	Section 8.2. Startup		296
	Section 8.3. Variables		298
	Section 8.4. Expressions		303
	Section 8.5. Filename Completion		307
	Section 8.6. Command Editing		307
	Section 8.7. Aliases		307
	Section 8.8. History		310
	Section 8.9. Control Structures		314
	Section 8.10. Sample Project: junk		321
	Section 8.11. Enhancements		323
	Section 8.12. Built-Ins		328
	Section 8.13. The Directory Stack		330
	Section 8.14. Command-Line Options		332
	Chapter Review		333
Chapter 9. Networking and the Internet		335
	Motivation		335
	Prerequisites		335
	Objectives		335
	Presentation		335
	Commands		336
	Section 9.1. Introduction		336
	Section 9.2. Building a Network		336
	Section 9.3. Internetworking		338
	Section 9.4. Identifying Network Users		344
	Section 9.5. Communicating with Network Users		347
	Section 9.6. Distributing Data		350
	Section 9.7. Distributed Processing		354
	Section 9.8. Evolution of the Internet		360
	Section 9.9. Using Today's Internet		371
	Chapter Review		373
Chapter 10. The Linux Desktop		375
	Motivation		375
	Prerequisites		375
	Objectives		375
	Presentation		375
	Utilities		376
	Section 10.1. Introduction		376
	Section 10.2. X Servers		377
	Section 10.3. Desktop Environments		379
	Section 10.4. Window Managers		381
	Section 10.5. Widgets		385
	Section 10.6. Desktop Operation		387
	Section 10.7. Client Applications		389
	Section 10.8. Standard X Client Arguments		391
	Section 10.9. Advanced Topics		392
	Chapter Review		397
Chapter 11. C Programming Tools		399
	Motivation		399
	Prerequisites		399
	Objectives		399
	Presentation		399
	Utilities		400
	Section 11.1. The C Language		400
	Section 11.2. C Compilers		400
	Section 11.3. Single-Module Programs		401
	Section 11.4. Multimodule Programs		404
	Section 11.5. Archiving Modules: ar		408
	Section 11.6. Managing Dependencies: make		411
	Section 11.7. The GNU Profiler: gprof		418
	Section 11.8. Debugging a Program: gdb		419
	Section 11.9. When You're Done: strip		429
	Chapter Review		429
Chapter 12. Systems Programming		431
	Motivation		431
	Prerequisites		431
	Objectives		431
	Presentation		431
	Utilities		432
	System calls and library functions		432
	Section 12.1. Introduction		432
	Section 12.2. Error Handling: perror ()		434
	Section 12.3. Regular File Management		436
	Section 12.4. Process Management		473
	Section 12.5. Signals		486
	Section 12.6. Interprocess Communication		500
	Chapter Review		528
Chapter 13. Linux Internals		533
	Motivation		533
	Prerequisites		533
	Objectives		533
	Presentation		534
	Section 13.1. Introduction		534
	Section 13.2. Kernel Basics		534
	Section 13.3. The File System		541
	Section 13.4. Process Management		552
	Section 13.5. Virtual Memory Management		556
	Section 13.6. Input and Output		560
	Section 13.7. Interprocess Communication		569
	Chapter Review		573
Chapter 14. System Administration		575
	Motivation		575
	Prerequisites		575
	Objectives		575
	Presentation		575
	Utilities		576
	Section 14.1. Introduction		576
	Section 14.2. Becoming the Super-User		576
	Section 14.3. Starting Linux		578
	Section 14.4. Stopping Linux		580
	Section 14.5. Maintaining the File System		580
	Section 14.6. Maintaining User Accounts		584
	Section 14.7. Installing New Software		587
	Section 14.8. Peripheral Devices		587
	Section 14.9. The Network Interface		588
	Section 14.10. Automating Tasks		589
	Section 14.11. Tunable Kernel Parameters		590
	Section 14.12. Security Issues		591
	Chapter Review		592
Appendix A.		595
	Section A.1. Regular Expressions		595
	Section A.2. Extended Regular Expressions		597
	Section A.3. Modified Backus-Naur Notation		597
	Section A.4. Utilities and Shell Built-In Commands		598
	Section A.5. System Calls and Library Functions		605
Bibliography		609
Index