Linux for Programmers and Users
Linux for Programmers and Users
ISBN: 0131857487
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 339
Pages: 339
Authors: Graham Glass, King Ables
- Linux for Programmers and Users
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Trademark Information
- Preface
- About the Authors
- About the Book
- Organization of the Book
- Layout of the Chapters
- A Guide for Teachers
- Nomenclature
- References to Other Books
- Source Code Availability Online
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. What Is Linux?
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Section 1.1. Computer Systems
- Section 1.2. Hardware
- Section 1.3. Operating System
- Section 1.4. Software
- Section 1.5. Sharing Resources
- Section 1.6. Communication
- Section 1.7. Utilities
- Section 1.8. Programmer Support
- Section 1.9. Standards
- Section 1.10. Linux Lineage
- Section 1.11. Linux Packaging
- Section 1.12. The Linux and UNIX Philosophy
- Section 1.13. Linux Features
- Section 1.14. The Rest of This Book
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 2. Installing Your Linux System
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Section 2.1. Introduction
- Section 2.2. Make Sure Your Hardware Will Support Linux
- Section 2.3. Choose Your Linux Distribution
- Section 2.4. Consider Optional Software Packages
- Section 2.5. Design Your System
- Section 2.6. Get Linux
- Section 2.7. Install Linux
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 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: catmoreheadtail
- 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: lplpstatcancel
- Section 3.24. Printing a File: lprlpqlprm
- 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
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 4. GNU Utilities for Power Users
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Utilities
- Section 4.1. Introduction
- Section 4.2. Filtering Files: grep, egrep, fgrep, and uniq
- Section 4.3. Sorting Files: sort
- Section 4.4. Comparing Files: cmp and diff
- Section 4.5. Finding Files: find
- Section 4.6. Archiving Files: cpio, tar, and dumprestore
- Section 4.7. Scheduling Commands: crontab and at
- Section 4.8. Programmable Text Processing: gawk
- Section 4.9. Hard and Soft Links: ln
- Section 4.10. Identifying Shells: whoami
- Section 4.11. Substituting a User: su
- Section 4.12. Transforming Files
- Section 4.13. Looking at Raw File Contents: od
- Section 4.14. Mounting File Systems: mount and umount
- Section 4.15. Identifying Terminals: tty
- Section 4.16. Timing Execution: time
- Section 4.17. Rolling Your Own Programs: Perl
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 5. The Linux Shells
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Utilities
- Shell Commands
- Section 5.1. Introduction
- Section 5.2. Selecting a Shell
- Section 5.3. Shell Operations
- Section 5.4. Executable Files Versus Built-in Commands
- Section 5.5. Metacharacters
- Section 5.6. Redirection
- Section 5.7. Filename Substitution (Wildcards)
- Section 5.8. Command Substitution
- Section 5.9. Sequences
- Section 5.10. Grouping Commands
- Section 5.11. Background Processing
- Section 5.12. Redirecting Background Processes
- Section 5.13. Shell Programs (Scripts)
- Section 5.14. Subshells or Child Shells
- Section 5.15. Variables
- Section 5.16. Quoting
- Section 5.17. Here Documents
- Section 5.18. Job Control
- Section 5.19. Finding a Command:
- Section 5.20. Superseding Standard Utilities
- Section 5.21. Termination and Exit Codes
- Section 5.22. Common Core Built-Ins
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 6. The Bourne Again Shell
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Shell Commands
- Section 6.1. Introduction
- Section 6.2. Startup
- Section 6.3. Variables
- Section 6.4. Command Shortcuts
- Section 6.5. Tilde Substitution
- Section 6.6. Redirection
- Section 6.7. Command Substitution
- Section 6.8. Arithmetic
- Section 6.9. Conditional Expressions
- Section 6.10. Control Structures
- Section 6.11. Functions
- Section 6.12. Menus: select
- Section 6.13. Directory Access and the Directory Stack
- Section 6.14. Job Control
- Section 6.15. Command-Line Options
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 7. The Korn Shell
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Shell Commands
- Section 7.1. Introduction
- Section 7.2. Startup
- Section 7.3. Variables
- Section 7.4. Aliases
- Section 7.5. History
- Section 7.6. Editing Commands
- Section 7.7. Arithmetic
- Section 7.8. Tilde Substitution
- Section 7.9. Menus: select
- Section 7.10. Functions
- Section 7.11. Job Control
- Section 7.12. Enhancements
- Section 7.13. Sample Project: junk
- Section 7.14. Command-Line Options
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 8. The C Shell
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Shell Commands
- Section 8.1. Introduction
- Section 8.2. Startup
- Section 8.3. Variables
- Section 8.4. Expressions
- Section 8.5. Filename Completion
- Section 8.6. Command Editing
- Section 8.7. Aliases
- Section 8.8. History
- Section 8.9. Control Structures
- Section 8.10. Sample Project: junk
- Section 8.11. Enhancements
- Section 8.12. Built-Ins
- Section 8.13. The Directory Stack
- Section 8.14. Command-Line Options
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 9. Networking and the Internet
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Commands
- Section 9.1. Introduction
- Section 9.2. Building a Network
- Section 9.3. Internetworking
- Section 9.4. Identifying Network Users
- Section 9.5. Communicating with Network Users
- Section 9.6. Distributing Data
- Section 9.7. Distributed Processing
- Section 9.8. Evolution of the Internet
- Section 9.9. Using Today s Internet
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 10. The Linux Desktop
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Utilities
- Section 10.1. Introduction
- Section 10.2. X Servers
- Section 10.3. Desktop Environments
- Section 10.4. Window Managers
- Section 10.5. Widgets
- Section 10.6. Desktop Operation
- Section 10.7. Client Applications
- Section 10.8. Standard X Client Arguments
- Section 10.9. Advanced Topics
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 11. C Programming Tools
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Utilities
- Section 11.1. The C Language
- Section 11.2. C Compilers
- Section 11.3. Single-Module Programs
- Section 11.4. Multimodule Programs
- Section 11.5. Archiving Modules: ar
- Section 11.6. Managing Dependencies: make
- Section 11.7. The GNU Profiler: gprof
- Section 11.8. Debugging a Program: gdb
- Section 11.9. When You re Done: strip
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 12. Systems Programming
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Utilities
- System calls and library functions
- Section 12.1. Introduction
- Section 12.2. Error Handling: perror ()
- Section 12.3. Regular File Management
- Section 12.4. Process Management
- Section 12.5. Signals
- Section 12.6. Interprocess Communication
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 13. Linux Internals
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Section 13.1. Introduction
- Section 13.2. Kernel Basics
- Section 13.3. The File System
- Section 13.4. Process Management
- Section 13.5. Virtual Memory Management
- Section 13.6. Input and Output
- Section 13.7. Interprocess Communication
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 14. System Administration
- Motivation
- Prerequisites
- Objectives
- Presentation
- Utilities
- Section 14.1. Introduction
- Section 14.2. Becoming the Super-User
- Section 14.3. Starting Linux
- Section 14.4. Stopping Linux
- Section 14.5. Maintaining the File System
- Section 14.6. Maintaining User Accounts
- Section 14.7. Installing New Software
- Section 14.8. Peripheral Devices
- Section 14.9. The Network Interface
- Section 14.10. Automating Tasks
- Section 14.11. Tunable Kernel Parameters
- Section 14.12. Security Issues
- Chapter Review
- Appendix A.
- Section A.1. Regular Expressions
- Section A.2. Extended Regular Expressions
- Section A.3. Modified Backus-Naur Notation
- Section A.4. Utilities and Shell Built-In Commands
- Section A.5. System Calls and Library Functions
- Bibliography
- Index
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Linux for Programmers and Users
ISBN: 0131857487
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 339
Pages: 339
Authors: Graham Glass, King Ables