Table of Contents

Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition
By Arnold Robbins
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: October 2005
ISBN: 0-596-10029-9
Pages: 906

Table of Contents  | Index

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		Copyright
		Dedication
		Preface
			Audience
			Scope of This Book
			Conventions
			Using Code Examples
			Safari® Enabled
			How to Contact Us
			Acknowledgments
		Part I:  Commands and Shells
			Chapter 1.  Introduction
				Section 1.1.  Unix in the 21st Century
				Section 1.2.  Obtaining Compilers
				Section 1.3.  Building Software
				Section 1.4.  What's in the Quick Reference
				Section 1.5.  Beginner's Guide
				Section 1.6.  Solaris: Standard Compliant Programs
			Chapter 2.  Unix Commands
				Section 2.1.  Introduction
				Section 2.2.  Alphabetical Summary of Common Commands
				Section 2.3.  Alphabetical Summary of Solaris Commands
				Section 2.4.  Alphabetical Summary of GNU/Linux Commands
				Section 2.5.  Alphabetical Summary of Mac OS X Commands
				Section 2.6.  Alphabetical Summary of Java Commands
			Chapter 3.  The Unix Shell: An Overview
				Section 3.1.  Introduction to the Shell
				Section 3.2.  Purpose of the Shell
				Section 3.3.  Shell Flavors
				Section 3.4.  Shell Source Code URLs
				Section 3.5.  Common Features
				Section 3.6.  Differing Features
			Chapter 4.  The Bash and Korn Shells
				Section 4.1.  Overview of Features
				Section 4.2.  Invoking the Shell
				Section 4.3.  Syntax
				Section 4.4.  Functions
				Section 4.5.  Variables
				Section 4.6.  Arithmetic Expressions
				Section 4.7.  Command History
				Section 4.8.  Job Control
				Section 4.9.  Command Execution
				Section 4.10.  Restricted Shells
				Section 4.11.  Built-in Commands (Bash and Korn Shells)
			Chapter 5.  tcsh: An Extended C Shell
				Section 5.1.  Overview of Features
				Section 5.2.  Invoking the Shell
				Section 5.3.  Syntax
				Section 5.4.  Variables
				Section 5.5.  Expressions
				Section 5.6.  Command History
				Section 5.7.  Command-Line Manipulation
				Section 5.8.  Job Control
				Section 5.9.  Built-in Commands
			Chapter 6.  Package Management
				Section 6.1.  Linux Package Management
				Section 6.2.  The Red Hat Package Manager
				Section 6.3.  Yum: Yellowdog Updater Modified
				Section 6.4.  up2date: Red Hat Update Agent
				Section 6.5.  The Debian Package Manager
				Section 6.6.  Mac OS X Package Management
				Section 6.7.  Solaris Package Management
		Part II:  Text Editing and Processing
			Chapter 7.  Pattern Matching
				Section 7.1.  Filenames Versus Patterns
				Section 7.2.  Metacharacters
				Section 7.3.  Metacharacters, Listed by Unix Program
				Section 7.4.  Examples of Searching
			Chapter 8.  The Emacs Editor
				Section 8.1.  Conceptual Overview
				Section 8.2.  Command-Line Syntax
				Section 8.3.  Summary of Commands by Group
				Section 8.4.  Summary of Commands by Key
				Section 8.5.  Summary of Commands by Name
			Chapter 9.  The vi, ex, and vim Editors
				Section 9.1.  Conceptual Overview
				Section 9.2.  Command-Line Syntax
				Section 9.3.  Review of vi Operations
				Section 9.4.  vi Commands
				Section 9.5.  vi Configuration
				Section 9.6.  ex Basics
				Section 9.7.  Alphabetical Summary of ex Commands
			Chapter 10.  The sed Editor
				Section 10.1.  Conceptual Overview
				Section 10.2.  Command-Line Syntax
				Section 10.3.  Syntax of sed Commands
				Section 10.4.  Group Summary of sed Commands
				Section 10.5.  Alphabetical Summary of sed Commands
			Chapter 11.  The awk Programming Language
				Section 11.1.  Conceptual Overview
				Section 11.2.  Command-Line Syntax
				Section 11.3.  Patterns and Procedures
				Section 11.4.  Built-in Variables
				Section 11.5.  Operators
				Section 11.6.  Variable and Array Assignment
				Section 11.7.  User-Defined Functions
				Section 11.8.  Gawk-Specific Features
				Section 11.9.  Implementation Limits
				Section 11.10.  Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands
				Section 11.11.  Alphabetical Summary of awk Functions and Commands
				Section 11.12.  Output Redirections
				Section 11.13.  Source Code
		Part III:  Software Development
			Chapter 12.  Source Code Management: An Overview
				Section 12.1.  Introduction and Terminology
				Section 12.2.  Usage Models
				Section 12.3.  Unix Source Code Management Systems
				Section 12.4.  Other Source Code Management Systems
			Chapter 13.  The Revision Control System
				Section 13.1.  Overview of Commands
				Section 13.2.  Basic Operation
				Section 13.3.  General RCS Specifications
				Section 13.4.  Alphabetical Summary of Commands
			Chapter 14.  The Concurrent Versions System
				Section 14.1.  Conceptual Overview
				Section 14.2.  Command-Line Syntax and Options
				Section 14.3.  Dot Files
				Section 14.4.  Environment Variables
				Section 14.5.  Keywords and Keyword Modes
				Section 14.6.  Dates
				Section 14.7.  CVSROOT Variables
				Section 14.8.  Alphabetical Summary of Commands
			Chapter 15.  The Subversion Version Control System
				Section 15.1.  Conceptual Overview
				Section 15.2.  Obtaining Subversion
				Section 15.3.  Using Subversion: A Quick Tour
				Section 15.4.  The Subversion Command Line Client: svn
				Section 15.5.  Repository Administration: svnadmin
				Section 15.6.  Examining the Repository: svnlook
				Section 15.7.  Providing Remote Access: svnserve
				Section 15.8.  Other Subversion Components
			Chapter 16.  The GNU make Utility
				Section 16.1.  Conceptual Overview
				Section 16.2.  Command-Line Syntax
				Section 16.3.  Makefile Lines
				Section 16.4.  Macros
				Section 16.5.  Special Target Names
				Section 16.6.  Writing Command Lines
			Chapter 17.  The GDB Debugger
				Section 17.1.  Conceptual Overview
				Section 17.2.  Command-Line Syntax
				Section 17.3.  Initialization Files
				Section 17.4.  GDB Expressions
				Section 17.5.  The GDB Text User Interface
				Section 17.6.  Group Listing of GDB Commands
				Section 17.7.  Summary of set and show Commands
				Section 17.8.  Summary of the info Command
				Section 17.9.  Alphabetical Summary of GDB Commands
			Chapter 18.  Writing Manual Pages
				Section 18.1.  Introduction
				Section 18.2.  Overview of nroff/troff
				Section 18.3.  Alphabetical Summary of man Macros
				Section 18.4.  Predefined Strings
				Section 18.5.  Internal Names
				Section 18.6.  Sample Document
		Part IV:  Commands and Shells
			Appendix A.  ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Character Set
			Bibliography
				Unix Descriptions and Programmer's Manuals
				Unix Internals
				System and Network Administration
				Programming with the Unix Mindset
				Programming Languages
				TCP/IP Networking
				Software Development
				Emacs
				Standards
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