Chapter 3. GNU Utilities for Nonprogrammers

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3. GNU Utilities for Nonprogrammers

Motivation

Prerequisites

Objectives

Presentation

Utilities

Shell command

Section 3.1.  Obtaining an Account

Section 3.2.  Logging In

Section 3.3.  Shells

Section 3.4.  Running a GNU Utility

Section 3.5.  Input, Output, and Error Channels

Section 3.6.  Obtaining Online Help: man

Section 3.7.  Special Characters

Section 3.8.  Setting Your Password: passwd

Section 3.9.  Logging Out

Section 3.10.  Poetry in Motion: Exploring the File System

Section 3.11.  Printing Your Shell's Current Working Directory: pwd

Section 3.12.  Absolute and Relative Pathnames

Section 3.13.  Creating a File

Section 3.14.  Listing the Contents of a Directory: ls

Section 3.15.  Listing the Contents of a File: cat/more/head/tail

Section 3.16.  Renaming a File: mv

Section 3.17.  Creating a Directory: mkdir

Section 3.18.  Moving to a Directory: cd

Section 3.19.  Copying a File: cp

Section 3.20.  Editing a File: vim

Section 3.21.  Deleting a Directory: rmdir

Section 3.22.  Deleting a File: rm

Section 3.23.  Printing a File: lp/lpstat/cancel

Section 3.24.  Printing a File: lpr/lpq/lprm

Section 3.25.  Counting Words in a File: wc

Section 3.26.  File Attributes

Section 3.27.  Groups

Section 3.28.  Listing Your Groups: groups

Section 3.29.  Changing a File's Group: chgrp

Section 3.30.  Changing a File's Permissions: chmod

Section 3.31.  Changing a File's Owner: chown

Section 3.32.  Changing Groups: newgrp

Section 3.33.  Poetry in Motion: Epilogue

Section 3.34.  Determining Your Terminal's Type: tset

Section 3.35.  Changing a Terminal's Characteristics: stty

Section 3.36.  Editing a File: vim

Section 3.37.  Editing a File: emacs

Section 3.38.  Electronic Mail: mail

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