List of Tables

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Table 2–1: Command Summary

Chapter 3: Working with Files and Directories

Table 3–1: Common File Extensions

Table 3–2: Command Summary

Chapter 4: The Command Shell

Table 4–1: Shell Redirection Operators

Table 4–2: Job Control Commands

Table 4–3: Assigning Variables and Aliases

Table 4–4: History Substitution

Table 4–5: Command-Line Editing Commands

Table 4–6: The Common Shells

Chapter 5: Text Editing

Table 5–1: Moving Around by Lines or Characters in vi

Table 5–2: Moving Across a Section of Text in vi

Table 5–3: Examples of the delete Command

Table 5–4: Some Examples of Yanking

Table 5–5: Some Useful vi Options

Chapter 6: The GNOME Desktop

Table 6–1: Items on the Desktop Context Menu

Chapter 7: The CDE and KDE Desktops

Table 7–1: The CDE Desktop Front Panel

Table 7–2: Items on the KDE Desktop Context Menu

Table 7–3: KDE Control Center Submenus and Their Functions

Table 7–4: KDE Sidebar Icons in Konqueror

Table 7–5: Built-in KDE Accessories and Their Functions

Table 7–6: Some Additional KDE Built-in Graphics Applications

Table 7–7: Additional KDE Built-in Internet Applications

Table 7–8: Some Other KDE Audio Players and Tools

Chapter 8: Electronic Mail

Table 8–1: Common UNIX Mail Clients

Chapter 9: Networking with TCP/IP

Table 9–1: The Most Commonly Used ftp Commands

Chapter 10: The Internet

Table 10–1: Some Popular Newsgroup Prefixes

Table 10–2: Some Popular Newsgroups and Their Topics

Table 10–3: Some readnews Commands

Table 10–4: Some Commonly Used vnews Commands

Table 10–5: Some Newsgroup-Level rn Commands

Table 10–6: Some Article-Level rn Commands

Table 10–7: Some Useful ircll Commands

Table 10–8: Some Common Internet File Formats and Their File Extensions

Table 10–9: Some Popular Helper Applications

Chapter 11: Processes and Scheduling

Table 11–1: The Thirty Most Common UNIX Signals

Chapter 13: Basic System Administration

Table 13–1: Software Installation Parameters

Chapter 14: Advanced System Administration

Table 14–1: ufsrestore Required Options

Chapter 17: Network Administration

Table 17–1: Network Classes and Their Netmasks, Including Host IP Examples

Table 17–2: Permissions Used to Enable Anonymous FTP

Chapter 18: Using UNIX and Windows Together

Table 18–1: Basic Commands in DOS and the UNIX System

Table 18–2: Differences in Syntactic Use of Slash, Backslash in DOS and UNIX

Chapter 19: Filters and Utilities

Table 19–1: grep Regular Expressions

Table 19–2: Additional egrep Regular Expressions

Table 19–3: Options for sort

Table 19–4: date Format Specifications

Table 19–5: bc Operators and Functions

Table 19–6: dc Operators

Table 19–7: Command Summary

Chapter 20: Shell Scripting

Table 20–1: Integer Tests

Table 20–2: String Tests

Table 20–3: Logical Operators

Table 20–4: Tests for Files and Directories

Table 20–5: echo Escape Sequences

Table 20–6: Interrupt Codes

Chapter 21: awk and sed

Table 21–1: awk Regular Expressions

Table 21–2: awk Built-in Variables

Chapter 22: Perl

Table 22–1: Comparison Operators

Table 22–2: Perl Regular Expressions

Table 22–3: Basic Perl Functions

Table 22–4: Special Characters Used in Perl

Chapter 23: Python

Table 23–1: Python Regular Expressions

Table 23–2: Python Keywords

Table 23–3: Python Module

Chapter 24: C and C++ Programming Tools

Table 24–1: gcc Command Line Options

Table 24–2: Makefile Automatic Variables

Table 24–3: gdb Commands

Table 24–4: cvs update Character Flags

Table 24–5: cvs Commands

Chapter 25: An Overview of Java

Table 25–1: Java Simple Types

Table 25–2: Relational and Logical Operators

Table 25–3: Java Packages

Appendix- How to Use the Man (Manual) Pages

Table A–1: Section Categories for UNIX man Pages